Everest

What Everest means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Everest yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #796 vs #2,269 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Everest?

US: Rising: up from #1491 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 315 boys got the name (#796 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

• About 1 in 5,422 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 27,194 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (2.38 per 1,000 boys), IA (0.58 per 1,000 boys), OK (0.51 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Everest is #796 in the US and #2269 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 77.4% of US babies named Everest were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Everest

Boys

• Shepherd#246From the word “shepherd”^*
• River#111From the word “river”^*
• Kairo#226Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 6 babies
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Crew#256“weir”^*
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*

For a sister

• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Josie#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #250 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Journee#258Editor’s note 1,198 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Eliza#115Editor’s note Up from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 in the US
• River#219From the word “river”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Everest’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.