Everly
Feminine · Old English roots · “Wild boar clearing or meadow”
Everly is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 43,374 girls against 38 boys since 1880.
Everly began as a place in England — a clearing in the woods where wild boar ran — then became a surname, then crossed to America and became a name for daughters. It has three easy syllables that fall the same way every time, and it shares its opening with the whole Ev- family: Eve, Evelyn, Eva. Long history, short career as a first name.
How old is the name Everly?
Everly first appears in US birth records in 1944 — 81 years ago. The typical Everly is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 43,000 people named Everly are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Everly most popular?
Everly peaked in 2019, reaching #42 nationally. Today it ranks #91, 49 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
Where it comes from
From eofor + leah (Old English) to Everly
The story of Everly
Everly is a habitational surname: it identified families who came from a place called Everley or Everleigh, names attached to settlements in Wiltshire and Yorkshire. Like most English surnames, it stayed a surname for centuries before American parents began treating it as a first name — the same route that produced Ashley, Kelsey and Emery. The Everly Brothers, the singing duo of Don and Phil, carried the surname into American living rooms in the twentieth century. As a girl's given name it is genuinely new: the record of its use is short, and it has done nearly all of its traveling within living memory.
Meaning
Wild boar clearing or meadow
From Old English eofor, boar, and leah, a clearing or woodland pasture — the standard reading for the English place names Everley and Everleigh.
How the name formed
- eofor + leahOld English
- Everley / EverleighEnglish place name
- EverlyEnglish surname
- EverlyAmerican given name
Pronouncing Everly
EV-er-lee
Stress on the first syllable, with a short e as in ever. Three syllables throughout; no settled variant pronunciation to worry about.
Nicknames for Everly
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
- 1944
- Most girls named
- 20194,782 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #42reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −10.7%2,695 in 2025, from 3,018
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.
Everly in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida. International figures from Statistics Canada. Sources
Everlys among us
people named Everly are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 596 born in 2025 was named Everly
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 Diana test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Everly's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Diana climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Diana's path sketches the road Everly is walking now.
Everly is coming down from a big peak (#42 in 2019). 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 Everly is headed
Everly is easing off slowly — about 16% 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.
Everly beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Everly 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 most English speakers — the spelling and the sound match, so it rarely needs saying twice.
- Comes with ready-made short forms, Evie and Ev, both already in wide use.
- Sits comfortably beside the long-established Ev- names — Eve, Eva, Evelyn — so it sounds familiar even to people meeting it for the first time.
- Documented English place-name and surname history behind it, with a clear meaning.
- Used in Canada as well as the United States, so it travels within English-speaking countries.
- Everleigh and Everlee compete with it directly, so expect to spell it out on forms and for anyone writing it down.
- In a classroom it can blur with Evelyn, Emery and Everett, which share its opening sound and its rhythm.
- Almost everyone who carries it is still a child. There are no older Everlys to borrow gravity from, and the name may sound distinctly of this moment for a while.
- It is stepping back from its high point rather than climbing, which in practice means one in a school rather than three in a class.
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Frequently asked
- How many Everlys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 43,000 people named Everly are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Everly in 2025?
- Everly ranks #91 among US girl names in 2025, with 2,695 babies given the name.
- How common is the name Everly?
- About 1 in every 596 US girls born in 2025 was named Everly — 2,695 in all.
- Will my child share the name Everly with classmates?
- Everly will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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