Evett
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Evett has been given to 309 babies in the U.S. since 1956. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Evett, 2007
1 in 800,000
Evett over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Evett?
Evett had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Evett sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Evett. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Evetts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Evett was born before 1973 — so the typical Evett is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 33.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 309
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (102).
Is Evett 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1974 (19)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.6% average annual change
Spellings of Evett
Evett is not the most common spelling — Yvette is, with 50.6% against Evett's 0.24%.
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 Evett is used
Across 1910–2025, Evett was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,396,279 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
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. Evett has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Evett by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Evett
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Evett
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.