Everley
Feminine · Old English roots · “boar clearing”
Everley began as a patch of English ground — a wooded clearing named in Old English, later a village in Wiltshire, later a family surname carried by people who came from there. Its rise as a girl's name in America is recent, arriving alongside Evelyn, Everett and Ava, and it sounds like all of them: three easy syllables that land softly on -lee.
How old is the name Everley?
Everley first appears in US birth records in 2008 — 17 years ago. The typical Everley is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,400 people named Everley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Everley most popular?
Everley peaked in 2019, reaching #1060 nationally. Today it ranks #1241, 181 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From eofor + lēah (Old English) to Everley
The story of Everley
Everley is a place turned surname turned given name. Villages in Wiltshire and Yorkshire carry the name in the forms Everleigh and Everley, built from Old English eofor and lēah, and families who left those places took the name with them. As a surname it traveled to America, where most people meet it in the spelling Everly — the name of Don and Phil Everly, the Everly Brothers. The first-name use is a recent development, part of a broad American habit of turning surnames ending in -ley into names for daughters.
Meaning
boar clearing, or boar meadow
The second element is Old English lēah, a clearing or woodland glade — the same ending behind Ashley, Bradley and Kimberley. The first is eofor, the wild boar that once roamed English woods.
How the name formed
- eofor + lēahOld English
- Everleigh / EverleyEnglish place names
- EverleyEnglish surname
- Everleymodern given name
Related forms: Everly · Everleigh · Everlee
Pronouncing Everley
EV-er-lee
Three syllables, stress on the first. Everley, Everly and Everleigh are all said the same way, which is exactly why the spellings get confused.
Nicknames for Everley
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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
- 2008
- Most girls named
- 2019240 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1060reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- +18.3%181 in 2025, from 153
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.
Everley in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Everly in English — spelling variant
- Everleigh in English — spelling variant
- Everlee in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Everleys among us
people named Everley are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 8,880 born in 2025 was named Everley
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 Charisma test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Everley's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Charisma climbed just as high around 2000, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Charisma's path sketches the road Everley is walking now.
Everley 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 Everley is headed
Everley is easing off slowly — about 17% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Everley beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Everley in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads correctly on sight for English speakers — no one will have to guess how to say it.
- Sits inside a family of names people already know: Evelyn, Everett, Eva, Ava, so it registers as familiar on first hearing.
- Comes with ready-made short forms — Ever, Evie, Ev — none of which had to be invented.
- Traceable to documented English place names and a real surname, rather than being coined from scratch.
- Everly, Everleigh, Everlee and Everley all sound identical, so expect to spell it out most times it is written down, and expect mail addressed to the other versions.
- The -ley ending places it firmly in a recent American wave alongside names like Kinsley and Emberly. That can date a name to its decade, the way Ashley and Kimberly did to theirs.
- Almost everyone carrying it right now is a child, so for a while it will read as a young name rather than one with adults in it — something that simply resolves as the first generation grows up.
- If the meaning matters to you, a boar clearing is a working piece of English farmland, not a poetic image. Some parents love that; it is worth knowing before someone else tells you.
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Frequently asked
- How many Everleys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Everley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Everley in 2025?
- Everley ranks #1241 among US girl names in 2025, with 181 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Everley?
- About 1 in every 8,880 US girls born in 2025 was named Everley — 181 in all.
- Will my child share the name Everley with classmates?
- Everley will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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