Ever

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ever is a given name, most frequently recorded in Peru. In Paraguay it is the 80th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Always, frequently, forever.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 979◐
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 1.4K
  • HNHonduras1 in 2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
199 ●

175K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.2K ◐

Costa Rica

Meaning & origin●

Always, frequently, forever.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ever is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#50359,53148K rec.——Ever66
AR Argentina#80645,68624K rec.—26Ever56
PY Paraguay#8032,22117K rec.——Ever45
MX Mexico#87824,05220K rec.—48Ever117
SV El Salvador#17519,41614K rec.——Ever43
VE Venezuela—17,9406.9K rec.—3.6KEver37
CO Colombia#39215,0247.8K rec.—9Ever91
HN Honduras#1138,9898.9K rec.——Ever36
US United States—7,88914K rec.1 in 42K7.9KEver199
EC Ecuador—1,869△48 rec.1 in 9K1.9KEver28
CR Costa Rica—7071.5K rec.1 in 7.2K707—30
BR Brazil—493796 rec.1 in 429K493Ever56

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish238K78%
  • English29K10%
  • Portuguese9.1K3%
  • 1.7K1%
  • Swahili1.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish238,24678%
English29,25710%
Portuguese9,1363%
1,7321%
Swahili1,5001%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ever is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name34K records spelled Ever25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Ecuador, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ëvër, Evêr, Éver, Evêř, Êvêr

  • a separate given name2.0K records spelled Ever2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, India, Bolivia

    Also written Éver

  • Swahili given name1.7K records spelled Ever7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Philippines, Tanzania

    Also written Ěvěr

  • French given name1.4K records spelled Ever13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Évér, Ëvęr, Éver, Évèr, Ěvěr

  • Turkish given name1.4K records spelled Ever6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Türkiye, United States, Spain

    Also written Êvèr, Evêr, Évèr, Ëvër, Êvër

  • Indonesian given name1.1K records spelled Ever6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ēvër, Evër, Èvër, Ëvër

  • Hindi given name1.1K records spelled Ever3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ëvër

  • Thai surname683 records spelled Ever18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Avery, Every, เอเวอรี่, เอเวอร, เอเวอร์รี่

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ever is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of eve

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, ever (with superlative)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, wild boar (Sus scrofa)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, present of eve

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, buveur

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0100200300190019502000205 · 2023

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Ever in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1888–2025
Yearrecords
18885
18897
189311
18957
18977
18985
190010
190112
190210
19035
19055
19068
190710
19086
19098
191010
191112
191213
191314
191410
191525
191623
191714
191829
191920
192017
192122
192220
192325
192430
192534
192621
192720
192829
192921
193020
193117
193222
193323
193412
193523
193622
193732
19388
193913
19406
194124
194223
194314
194412
194510
194614
194715
194814
19498
19507
19518
19526
19535
195513
19566
19579
19616
19716
19725
19766
19775
19785
197912
19809
19815
198211
198311
198415
198521
198616
198723
198824
198938
199040
199147
199251
199354
199454
199550
199655
199765
199858
199969
200080
2001102
200297
2003117
2004126
2005148
2006148
2007155
2008175
2009146
2010117
2011135
2012127
2013121
2014140
2015148
2016134
2017131
2018119
2019160
2020155
2021166
2022174
2023205
2024203
2025169

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 115 years between 1888–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Ever Hugo Almeida, b. 1948Ever Hernández, b. 1958Ever Palacios, b. 1969Ever Carradine, b. 1974Ever Caballero, b. 1982Ever Alfaro, b. 1982Ever Amarilla, b. 1984Ever Cantero, b. 1985Éver Valencia, b. 1996Ruby Copeland, b. 2016

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 47 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Ever
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.9K#2,548
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—3.6K#349
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.9K#497
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#2,548
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—707#692
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022493—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—453#13,518
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—335#18,439
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—268#7,211
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—179#4,540
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025169—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025131—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 691 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ever?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Ever (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Ever have the most bearers?
Ever is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled ever.
How common is Ever compared with other names?
In Peru, Ever is the 503rd most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.
Is Ever a male or female name?
Ever is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ever mean?
Recorded meaning: Always, frequently, forever.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ever” — the 503rd most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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