Everson
Masculine · “son of the boar-brave”
Everson is given to both — 835 boys and 28 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Everson is son of Ever, and the Germanic behind it is a wild boar — eber, the animal Germanic warriors put on their helmets.
How old is the name Everson?
Everson first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. The typical Everson is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Everson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Everson most popular?
Everson peaked in 2024, reaching #1641 nationally. Today it ranks #1919, 278 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From eber hard to Everson
The story of Everson
Eoforheard survived the conquest as Everard and became the surnames Everett and Everson. The -son movement of the 2010s brought many such names into American given-name use — Emerson, Jameson, Everson, Ellison. Everson appears in the American registers in that decade and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
son of the boar-brave
From Everard or Ever, from the Germanic eber, 'wild boar', and hard, 'brave', with the English patronymic -son. The boar was a symbol of ferocity and appears on Anglo-Saxon helmets, including the one from Sutton Hoo. A second route reads it as son of Everett.
How the name formed
- eber hard
- Everard
- Everson
Related forms: Everett · Eberhard · Everson
Pronouncing Everson
EV-ur-sun
Three syllables, stress on the first. Said identically in every English accent.
Nicknames for Everson
Moderate
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
- 1920
- Most boys named
- 2024103 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1641reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −21.4%81 in 2025, from 103
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.
Everson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Everett in English — related form
- Eberhard in German — related form
- Everson in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Minnesota, California.
Eversons among us
people named Everson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 21,087 born in 2025 was named Everson
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 Cross test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Everson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cross climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cross's path sketches the road Everson is walking now.
Everson 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 Everson is headed
Everson looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 35% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Everson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Everson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The boar meaning is concrete and the helmet tradition behind it is documented.
- Ever is available as a short form with real modern currency.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- It reads unmistakably as a surname.
- Emerson and Everson are close enough to cause confusion.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Masculine · #1919 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Eversons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Everson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Everson in 2025?
- Everson ranks #1919 among US boy names in 2025, with 81 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Everson?
- About 1 in every 21,087 US boys born in 2025 was named Everson — 81 in all.
- Will my child share the name Everson with classmates?
- Everson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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