Given name & surname
Eveleigh
“woodland clearing, glade”
Eveleigh is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eveleigh goes back to a word meaning “woodland clearing, glade.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eveleigh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 120
- 0 boys · 120 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,251 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −48%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,251 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 47.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 252 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eveleigh’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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