Evan
Evan is ranked 143rd among boys in 2024 (2,526 births). Its best rank was 35th, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- #143down 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,5260.15% of boys
- Peak year
- 200710,295 births
- Best rank
- #35in 2009
- Since 1880
- 289,934people given the name
The story in the numbers
285,259 boys have been named Evan in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 10,295 births — 0.50% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 58 → 143).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 32%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 37 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,675 girls have also been given it, 1.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Evan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 192 | |
| 1890s | 187 | |
| 1900s | 218 | |
| 1910s | 1,130 | |
| 1920s | 1,511 | |
| 1930s | 1,175 | |
| 1940s | 1,545 | |
| 1950s | 2,991 | |
| 1960s | 5,085 | |
| 1970s | 7,871 | |
| 1980s | 32,486 | |
| 1990s | 59,397 | |
| 2000s | 92,141 | |
| 2010s | 64,752 | |
| 2020s | 14,578 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Evan was the 40th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Evan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Blaynepeak 2009
- Evinpeak 2005
- Davenpeak 2007
- Ryenpeak 2005
- Adreanpeak 2009
- Josemanuelpeak 2006
- Chaisepeak 2008
- Juancarlospeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.