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Everest

#796 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Everest has been given to 3,986 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #796 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 315 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% boys, 23% girls all-time.

Babies named Everest, 2025

1 in 10,500

Everest over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Everest over time

In 2025, Everest went to 23% girls and 77% boys.

19142025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Everest: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Everest means

Everest is a given name.

The naming story behind Everest

Wikidata records Everest as a given name, unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q103840986, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,058 boys were recorded with the name Everest between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 315 in 2025; its best national rank was #796 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #986 in 2020 to #796 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,497 in 2015 to #796 in 2025.

In the United States, 928 girls were recorded with the name Everest between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 133 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,579 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,120 in 2020 to #2,053 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,760 in 2015 to #2,053 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.

How common is Everest?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,500
315 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,420
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#796
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,296 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Everest 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,296 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Everest. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Everests were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Everest was born before 2020 — so the typical Everest is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,985
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (1,666).

Is Everest 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
+47
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+190
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+701
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.84×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (315)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#796
2025

Spellings of Everest

Everest is not the most common spelling — Everett is, with 86.9% against Everest's 2.0%.

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 Everest is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Everest was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,439 boys, against 1 in 8,002 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 50,000).

241 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,439
  2. 2Washington1 in 3,846
  3. 3Colorado1 in 4,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 4,348
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 4,545
  6. 6Oregon1 in 5,556
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 5,882
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 5,882

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.

Where Everest is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Everest was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 31,296 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 9,091
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 25,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Everest around the world

Where Everest 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
    2014–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2023
    #6,773
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #949
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Everest

People whose public names include Everest, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Everest by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#796
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 190
Best rank ever
#796
2025
Peak year
2025
315 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,058
Count in 2025
315

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,053
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 67
Best rank ever
#1,579
2021
Peak year
2021
133 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
928
Count in 2025
92

Names similar to Everest

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

EvelynEverardoEversonEvertEvertonEveretteEveretEverhettEvelioEverEverittEverrettEverttHarvestWestPriestEverardForestEverettQuestEvenForrestEarnestHonest

Names with a curve like Everest

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Everest, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Everest

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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