Everlee
Feminine · Old English roots · “from the boar meadow”
Everlee belongs to a family of names that began as English ground: villages like Everleigh in Wiltshire and Eversley in Hampshire, whose names became surnames, and whose surnames crossed to America and turned into first names. The spelling with the plain -lee ending is the newest of the group, and the most straightforward to read aloud — three syllables that land softly, ending on the same open sound as Emmylou or Marilee.
How old is the name Everlee?
Everlee first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Everlee is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 7,300 people named Everlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Everlee most popular?
Everlee peaked in 2022, reaching #364 nationally. Today it ranks #545, 181 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From eofor-lēah (Old English) to Everlee
The story of Everlee
The line starts with land. Old English speakers named clearings for what lived in them, and eofor-lēah, the boar's clearing, survives in English villages including Everleigh and Eversley. Families who came from such places carried the name with them as Everley or Everly, and in America the surname made the usual crossing into first-name use, as Avery, Emery and Hadley did. Everlee is the phonetic respelling of that surname line — the same name written the way it sounds, and a very recent arrival among given names.
Meaningscholars disagree
from the boar meadow, or a modern reading of 'ever' plus '-lee'
The older road is the English place name behind the surname Everley: Old English eofor, 'wild boar', with lēah, 'woodland clearing' or 'meadow'. The newer road is the spelling itself — this form reads to English speakers as the word 'ever' joined to the -lee ending shared by Kaylee, Emerlee and Brinlee, and many families choose it on that reading alone. Both are genuinely in play, and neither cancels the other.
How the name formed
- eofor-lēahOld English
- Everleigh / EversleyEnglish place names
- Everleysurname
- Everly
- Everlee
Related forms: Everly · Everleigh · Everley
Pronouncing Everlee
EV-er-lee
Three syllables, stress on the first. In fast American speech the middle syllable often softens to EV-uh-lee. The spelling gives the sound away, so almost no one guesses wrong on hearing it read.
Nicknames for Everlee
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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
- 1917
- Most girls named
- 2022873 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #364reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −16.3%554 in 2025, from 662
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.
Everlee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Everly in English — spelling variant
- Everleigh in English — spelling variant
- Everley in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Everlees among us
people named Everlee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,901 born in 2025 was named Everlee
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 Julianne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Everlee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Julianne climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Julianne's path sketches the road Everlee is walking now.
Everlee 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 Everlee is headed
Everlee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Everlee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Everlee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads correctly at first sight for English speakers — the -lee ending removes the ambiguity that -leigh spellings can create.
- Comes with ready-made short forms: Evie, Ever, Ev and Lee, all already in real use.
- Sits inside a large, familiar sound family — Everly, Emery, Avery, Emerson — so it is unusual without being unrecognizable.
- Traces back to a documented English place-name and surname line, not only to a modern coinage.
- Everly, Everleigh, Everley and Everlee all sound identical, so spelling it out will be a lifelong small habit. Choosing the phonetic version helps with reading it, less with writing it.
- The -lee ending is strongly associated with the present naming era. A child with this name will likely be placed in her generation on paper, the way a Debbie or a Tracy is.
- It sits close to Evelyn and Emery in the ear; expect occasional mishearings in noisy rooms and over the phone.
- The wave behind this spelling is very recent, so nearly everyone who carries it is a child right now. There is no adult version of the name to point to yet — which is also true of every name at this stage.
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Frequently asked
- How many Everlees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,300 people named Everlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Everlee in 2025?
- Everlee ranks #545 among US girl names in 2025, with 554 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Everlee?
- About 1 in every 2,901 US girls born in 2025 was named Everlee — 554 in all.
- Will my child share the name Everlee with classmates?
- Everlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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