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Even

#10,003 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly luck, good fortune

Even has been given to 555 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #10,003 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Even, 2025

1 in 474,000

Even over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Even: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly luck, good fortune

Old Norse

What Even means

Even may mean “luck, good fortune”, associated with awją.

Origin, language, and formation

Even is used in Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Old Norse.

Even comes through Old Norse Eyvindr and Proto-Norse *Auja-winduʀ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eivind.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Even is pronounced /ˈeː.ʋən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 555 boys were recorded with the name Even between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,094 in 1922.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,398 in 2020 to #10,003 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,438 in 2015 to #10,003 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Even?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,003
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Even sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Even. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Evens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Even was born before 2006 — so the typical Even is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
530
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Choose a decade

2000s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (182).

Is Even rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,439
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,605
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,565
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 2008 (28)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,094
1922

Spellings of Even

Even is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 31.8% against Even's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Even is used

Across 1910–2025, Even was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 465,093 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Even has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Even around the world

Where Even ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1957–2025
    #1,181
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #42
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Even by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,003
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,605
Best rank ever
#3,094
1922
Peak year
2008
28 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
555
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Even

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EvelioEveretIvenZavenMavenEverAivenNevenEvertonEvertKavenRivenAyvenEversonCavenJovenEvelynSvenEvensLevenShivenAvenJaivenHeaven

Sibling names for Even

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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