Everett
Masculine · “brave boar”
Everett is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 135,900 boys against 1,201 girls since 1880. See Everett as a girl name
Everett began as a surname, and behind the surname stands a Germanic name meaning something like "brave as a boar" — one of those old compounds Norman scribes carried into England and slowly reshaped. It has been on the American rolls since record-keeping started, never disappearing, never crowding, and it has been worn by figures as different as a long-serving Illinois senator and a film actor. In the mouth it moves quickly: three light syllables that most people collapse into two.
How old is the name Everett?
Everett was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Everett alive today was born around 1972, making them about 53 years old. About 83,000 people named Everett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Everett most popular?
Everett peaked in 2025, reaching #77 nationally. Today it ranks #77, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Eberhard to Everett
The story of Everett
The root name is Eberhard, well used among the Franks and Germans and current in England as Everard after the Norman Conquest. Medieval English families who bore Everard passed it down as a hereditary surname, which developed spellings including Everett and Everitt. Nineteenth-century Americans took to reviving family surnames as first names, and Everett came through that door rather than directly from the medieval given name. It has stayed in use ever since, and also charts in Canada.
Meaning
brave boar; strong as a wild boar
From the Germanic elements *ebur* "wild boar" and *hard* "brave, hardy" — the boar being an emblem of courage in early Germanic naming.
How the name formed
- Eberhard
- Everard
- Everettsurname
- Everettgiven name
Related forms: Eberhard · Evert · Everard · Évrard · Everardo · Everardo
Pronouncing Everett
EV-uh-rit
Stress on the first syllable. Many speakers compress it to EV-rit, and both are standard; the final syllable is a light "-it" rather than "-ett".
Nicknames for Everett
High
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
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 20254,287 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #77reached in 2025
- Change vs 2022
- +3.5%4,287 in 2025, from 4,141
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.
Everett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eberhard in German — related form
- Evert in Dutch — related form
- Everard in English — related form
- Évrard in French — related form
- Everardo in Spanish — related form
- Everardo in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio. International figures from Statistics Canada. Sources
Everetts among us
people named Everett are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 398 born in 2025 was named Everett
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 Rick test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Everett's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rick climbed just as high around 1958, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rick's path sketches the road Everett is walking now.
Everett sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Everett is headed
Everett should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Everett beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Everett in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Continuously on the American record since national counting began, with no gap — a name that has never had to be reintroduced.
- Sits within a wide European family of Eberhard, Evert and Everardo, so relatives abroad will recognize its shape.
- Has a settled short form in Ev, plus Rhett for anyone who wants something shorter and less obvious.
- Spelling is phonetic enough that most people get it from hearing it, once the double t is established.
- Recognized in Canada as well as the United States, which travels well across the border.
- Everett, Everette and Everitt are all real spellings, so expect to confirm yours now and then, especially over the phone.
- It sits in a busy sound-neighborhood — Evelyn, Everly, Emmett — and can be misheard as one of them on first introduction.
- The name is on the rise rather than resting, so a child may meet more Everetts in their twenties than the older generations of Everetts ever did.
- Older Americans are well represented among current bearers, which for some ears gives it a mid-century, senatorial ring rather than a brand-new one.
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Masculine · #77 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Everetts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 83,000 people named Everett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Everett in 2025?
- Everett ranks #77 among US boy names in 2025, with 4,287 babies given the name.
- How common is the name Everett?
- About 1 in every 398 US boys born in 2025 was named Everett — 4,287 in all.
- Will my child share the name Everett with classmates?
- Everett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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