Everly

What Everly means

Variant of Everleigh, meaning “wild boar + woodland clearing”

variant of Everleigh || From Old English eofor (“wild boar”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Everly” (revision 88011479) and “Everleigh” (revision 88011361), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Everly?

US: Rising: up from #138 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #432 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 4,630 girls got the name (#43 that year). First in the US records in 1944.

How common

• About 1 in 596 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,689 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland 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 VT (6.16 per 1,000 girls), SD (4.91 per 1,000 girls), AK (4.84 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Everly is #91 in the US and #297 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Everly were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Everlee554 US · 8 E&W
• Everley181 US · 55 E&W
• Averly72 US · 3 E&W
• Everli26 US
• Averley5 US
• Ivorly5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Everly

Girls

• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Harlow#309Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Harlow in 2025 were girls

For a brother

• Lincoln#69“the Roman settlement Lindum Colonia”^*
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Ryker#182Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #182 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Everly’s. Rank is US 2025.