Everton
Masculine · “Old English eofor and tun”
Everton is a district of Liverpool and a football club founded in 1878. In Jamaica and Brazil it is a boy's name, given in numbers, because the club's matches were watched and its players followed. Football has moved more names across the world in the last century than any novelist, and the mechanism is entirely modern.
How old is the name Everton?
Everton first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Everton alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 500 people named Everton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Everton most popular?
Everton peaked in 1988, reaching #2765 nationally. Today it ranks #8243, 5,478 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
Where it comes from
From eofor tun to Everton
The story of Everton
English football clubs took their names from the districts they were founded in, and those district names are ordinary Old English place words: Everton is boar farm, Tottenham is Totta's homestead, Arsenal is a weapons factory, Chelsea is a chalk landing place. When the game spread through the Empire and then through radio and television, the club names traveled with it and were heard by people with no idea what they had originally meant. In Jamaica, Trinidad and Brazil this produced a naming pattern: Everton, Wanderley, Lineker, Rivaldo and Ronaldo are all in use, and the football names sit alongside the older layer of English and Scottish names left by colonial administration. The boar element is worth a note of its own. It appears across Germanic naming as an animal of ferocity, alongside bear and wolf, and it gives English Everard and German Eberhard.
Meaning
Old English eofor and tun, boar settlement
From Old English eofor, a wild boar, and tun, an enclosed settlement or farm: the farm where boars are found. Everton is a district of Liverpool and the name of several English villages. As a personal name it is used chiefly in the Caribbean and in Brazil, and its American appearances follow Caribbean migration. It peaks in the American data in 1988.
How the name formed
- eofor tun
- Everton
Related forms: Everton · Everard
Pronouncing Everton
EV-er-tun
Three syllables, stress on the first. The Brazilian pronunciation is eh-vehr-TON with the stress at the end, following Portuguese rules, and Brazilian bearers of the name usually say it that way.
Nicknames for Everton
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
- 1917
- Most boys named
- 198820 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2765reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −30.8%9 in 2025, from 13
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.
Everton in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Everton in Portuguese — same name
- Everard in English — related form
Evertons among us
people named Everton are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 189,786 born in 2025 was named Everton
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 Jt test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Everton's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jt climbed just as high around 1920, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jt's path sketches the road Everton is walking now.
Everton 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
Everton beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Everton in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both Old English elements have settled meanings.
- It fits the -ton pattern that dominates American boys' naming.
- It has a genuine and documented international history.
- The football association is unavoidable in Britain and the Caribbean.
- The English and Portuguese stress patterns differ.
- It reads as a surname to most Americans.
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Frequently asked
- How many Evertons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Everton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Everton in 2025?
- Everton ranks #8243 among US boy names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Everton?
- About 1 in every 189,786 US boys born in 2025 was named Everton — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Everton with classmates?
- Everton will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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