Everdeen

With "Eve" and "Ever" names trending in a big way, The Hunger Games heroine Katniss Everdeen’s surname definitely has first-name potential for adventurous parents. It was chosen as a nod to Bathsheba Everdene, the central character of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd; according to the author Suzanne Collins: "The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts".

Pronounced EV-er-deen.

As of October 2026, Everdeen ranked #13976 in US births in 2020 SSA, peaked at #12286 in 2014.