Everleigh
Feminine · Old English roots · “from the boar clearing”
Everleigh is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 20,924 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Everleigh began as English ground: Everley, a Wiltshire place-name built from Old English words for boar and woodland clearing, which became a surname and then, on this side of the Atlantic, a first name. In the mouth it runs EV-er-lee, three light syllables that end the way Emily and Everly do, and it arrives with Ever and Evie already attached.
How old is the name Everleigh?
Everleigh first appears in US birth records in 2008 — 17 years ago. The typical Everleigh is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 21,000 people named Everleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Everleigh most popular?
Everleigh peaked in 2020, reaching #94 nationally. Today it ranks #194, 100 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
Where it comes from
From eofor + leah (Old English) to Everleigh
The story of Everleigh
The oldest layer is a patch of English countryside: Everley in Wiltshire, recorded in early medieval sources as a clearing associated with wild boar. Places like that gave families their surnames, and Everley and Everly traveled as surnames long before anyone used them to name a daughter. The move from last name to first name is an American habit, and Everleigh is the version that swaps the plain -ly for -leigh, a spelling English surnames have carried for centuries in forms like Ashleigh and Hadleigh. It is a young given name with an old skeleton.
Meaning
from the boar clearing — an English place-name
The Old English elements are eofor (wild boar) and leah (woodland clearing or meadow), by way of the English place-name and surname Everley/Everly. Many American parents read the name a second way, as the word ever plus the fashionable ending -leigh; that reading is modern rather than historical, but it is genuinely part of how the name is understood now.
How the name formed
- eofor + leahOld English
- EverleyEnglish place-name
- Everlysurname
- Everleigh
Related forms: Everly · Everlee · Everley
Pronouncing Everleigh
EV-er-lee
Three syllables, stress on the first, with the opening sounding exactly like the word ever. The -leigh ending is pronounced -lee, as in Ashleigh.
Nicknames for Everleigh
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
- 2008
- Most girls named
- 20202,827 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #94reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −13.1%1,615 in 2025, from 1,858
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.
Everleigh in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Everly in English — spelling variant
- Everlee in English — spelling variant
- Everley in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Florida.
Everleighs among us
people named Everleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 995 born in 2025 was named Everleigh
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 Gracie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Everleigh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gracie climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gracie's path sketches the road Everleigh is walking now.
Everleigh is coming down from a big peak (#94 in 2020). This is the stretch of the cycle where a name starts to sound like the decade it ruled.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Everleigh is headed
Everleigh should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Everleigh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Everleigh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- English speakers read it correctly on sight: it sounds like ever plus lee, with no silent traps.
- Comes with short forms already in use — Ever, Evie, Ev — none of which need explaining.
- Sits inside a familiar family of sounds alongside Evelyn, Everett and Emily, so it rarely needs repeating.
- The old skeleton is real: an English place-name and surname with a documented medieval record behind a very modern first name.
- Everly, Everleigh and Everlee are all in circulation, so she will likely spell it out most times she gives it. Choosing the spelling you are happy to repeat matters more than which one you choose.
- This is a recent name, and its bearers are overwhelmingly children. Expect it to date her to a particular stretch of years the way Ashley or Brittany date earlier ones — and expect adults to have met few or no others.
- The -leigh ending is fashionable enough that some people read it as a marker of trend rather than tradition. That fades quickly once a real child is attached to it.
- Evie is shared with Evelyn, Eva and Eve, so the nickname is less distinctive than the full name.
Nobody names a baby alone.
Put Everleigh to the vote.
Add it to a family vote or a couple’s swipe deck — the other person gets one card, a simple answer and room to say why. No app, no account for them.
Only the people you invite can see your list.
Already decided on Everleigh? Hide it among decoys and let them guess.
What they receive
Someone added a name to your list
Everleigh
Feminine · Old English roots · #194 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Everleighs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 21,000 people named Everleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Everleigh in 2025?
- Everleigh ranks #194 among US girl names in 2025, with 1,615 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Everleigh?
- About 1 in every 995 US girls born in 2025 was named Everleigh — 1,615 in all.
- Will my child share the name Everleigh with classmates?
- Everleigh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Everleigh
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Kaia#193 · Alora#195 · Molly#196 · Reese#192 · Blakely#191 · Olive#197 · Sara#198 · Haven#190
Looking for what else is popular rather than what resembles Everleigh? See the current top 100.
Choosing between Everleigh and another name?
See them side by side — full stats, history and a gentle verdict.
Compare side by sideIn a hurry? Just pick a winner — one tap, no sign-up, and you see how everyone else voted.
Or jump into a head-to-head
Weighing a whole shortlist? Add the rest in the builder, or settle it with a bracket.
Cast your vote
Which one would you pick?
Your gut first, the numbers after — the split shows once you pick.
US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
No advertising trackers and no data sellinghow we handle your dataindependent and founder-run, about Name Battle