Ever

Where Ever comes from

Ever hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,897 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Ever Palacios born
    Colombian association football player
  3. 1972
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1974
    Ever Carradine born
    American actress
  5. 2023
    Peak, #1,061
    205 babies named Ever — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ever Palacios · Colombian association football player, born 1969
  • Ever Carradine · American actress, born 1974
  • Ever Hernández · Salvadoran footballer, born 1958
  • Ever Hugo Almeida · Paraguayan footballer, born 1948
  • Ever Cantero · Paraguayan footballer, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.