Evertt
Masculine · “strong as a boar”
Evertt is a Germanic warrior name that has been through Dutch, English and a New England surname before reaching this spelling. What it actually means is a wild boar, and the boar was a compliment — the fiercest thing in the northern forest, and the animal a fighting man most wanted to be compared to.
How old is the name Evertt?
Evertt first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Evertt alive today was born around 1929, making them about 96 years old. About 200 people named Evertt are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Evertt most popular?
Evertt peaked in 1881, reaching #866 nationally. See the whole 1881 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Germanic eber and hard combine: a boar's courage to Evertt
The story of Evertt
The name's most quoted American bearer is remembered for being overshadowed. Edward Everett was a scholar, a senator, a governor and one of the great orators of his day, and at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg in 1863 he was the main speaker: he talked for about two hours from memory, tracing the battle and the war in the classical manner the occasion was thought to require. The President then spoke for a couple of minutes. Everett wrote to him the next day to say that he would be glad if he had come as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as the President had in two minutes — which is both a gracious thing to write and an unusually clear-eyed one, and it is the sentence he is now chiefly remembered for.
Meaning
strong as a boar
The two elements are eber, a wild boar, and hard, meaning brave, hardy or strong — the same word as English hard. Germanic naming was full of animals chosen for what they did rather than what they looked like, and the boar outranked most of them: an animal that does not retreat, that goes through what is in front of it. The compound produced Everard in England, Everhard in Germany and Evert in the Low Countries, and the surname Everett came from those. Nothing about the derivation is disputed.
How the name formed
- Germanic eber and hard combine: a boar's courage
- The name gives Everard in England and Evert in the Low Countries
- Everett becomes an established English surname
- 1863: Edward Everett gives the long oration at Gettysburg
- American parents use the surname as a first name, and respell it
Related forms: Evert · Everett · Everard · Eberhard
Pronouncing Evertt
EV-uh-rett
Three syllables with the stress at the front, the middle one reduced almost to nothing — many speakers say it as two, EV-rett. The rearranged letters at the end change none of that; the name sounds exactly like the standard spelling.
Nicknames for Evertt
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
- 1881
- Most boys named
- 192441 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #866reached in 1881
- Change vs 1985
- −28.6%5 in 2019, from 7
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.
Evertt in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Evert in Dutch — related form
- Everett in English — spelling variant
- Everard in English — related form
- Eberhard in German — related form
Evertts among us
people named Evertt are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Evertt sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- A genuinely old name with a vivid, concrete meaning behind it
- Currently rising in the standard spelling, so it sounds contemporary rather than dated
- Short forms at both ends of the name, both of them established
- The standard spelling ends in -ett after an e, and this one does not, so it will be corrected on nearly every document.
- Spelling it aloud takes care, because the difference is at the end where people stop listening.
- It reads as a surname first to many Americans, which is a small permanent friction on forms.
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Frequently asked
- How many Evertts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Evertt are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Evertt in 2025?
- Evertt is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Evertt with classmates?
- Evertt will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with E, all years combined.
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