Everest
Masculine · “The mountain”
Everest is given to both — 3,058 boys and 928 girls since 1880. See Everest as a girl nameSee other names given to both
In 1865 the Royal Geographical Society attached the surname of a Welsh surveyor, George Everest, to the highest peak on earth. He objected — the name, he pointed out, could not easily be written or spoken in the languages of the region he had spent his life mapping. The objection lost, and an ordinary English surname became a word known in every country on the map.
How old is the name Everest?
Everest first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Everest is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,000 people named Everest are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Everest most popular?
Everest peaked in 2025, reaching #796 nationally. Today it ranks #796, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Évreux to Everest
The story of Everest
Everest was an English surname long before it belonged to any mountain, recorded in the southeast of England across generations of ordinary families. It left that quiet life through George Everest, whose successor as Surveyor General proposed his name for the peak then cataloged only as Peak XV. From 1865 onward the word meant one thing to most of the world, and it began the slow drift that English surnames often make — from family name to place name to first name. Its use for children is genuinely recent in bulk, part of the wider turn toward summits, rivers and places as given names.
Meaningscholars disagree
The mountain — a surname that became the name of the world's highest peak
Two readings sit on top of each other. As a given name, Everest points at the mountain, named in 1865 for George Everest, Surveyor General of India. The surname's own origin is the unsettled part: the usual account traces it to the Norman family name Devereux, 'of Évreux' in Normandy, worn down over centuries into Everest; others treat it as an English locality name. The peak's older names are unrelated — Chomolungma in Tibetan, Sagarmāthā in Nepali.
How the name formed
- Évreux
- Devereux
- Everest
Pronouncing Everest
EV-uh-rest
Three syllables, commonly compressed to two in fast speech: EV-rest. Both are standard. George Everest himself said EEVE-rest, but that pronunciation did not survive the mountain.
Nicknames for Everest
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most boys named
- 2025315 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #796reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +9.0%315 in 2025, from 289
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Everest in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Everests among us
people named Everest are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 5,422 born in 2025 was named Everest
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kevan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Everest's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kevan climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kevan's path sketches the road Everest is walking now.
Everest is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Everest is headed
Everest looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Everest beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Everest in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One spelling, and it is already known worldwide — the mountain means the name rarely has to be repeated, spelled out or corrected.
- A proper noun with no translation, so it crosses languages intact rather than being adapted at every border.
- Ev is a ready short form, and it is shared with Evan and Everett, so it lands as familiar rather than invented.
- It appears in US records going back generations, so it is a rare name that found new use rather than a recent coinage.
- The mountain is unavoidable. Everyone makes the connection in the first second, and a fair share will follow it with an aim-high remark or a climbing joke. That is the trade for a name nobody has to have spelled twice.
- Its wave is very new, so nearly everyone carrying it right now is a young child. The name reads as of this moment rather than as something inherited — which may be exactly the point, or may not be.
- Recorded chiefly for boys in the US, though it is also given to girls in small numbers. Like most place names, it carries no gender of its own, so a girl named Everest is unusual rather than unheard of.
- Expect both EV-uh-rest and EV-rest from other people, sometimes from the same person. Neither is wrong, and it is not the kind of variation that needs correcting.
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Masculine · #796 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Everests are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,000 people named Everest are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Everest in 2025?
- Everest ranks #796 among US boy names in 2025, with 315 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Everest?
- About 1 in every 5,422 US boys born in 2025 was named Everest — 315 in all.
- Will my child share the name Everest with classmates?
- Everest will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Everest
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