Given name & surname
Everard
“as strong as a boar; as brave as a boar”
Everard has a related form in Everett. In English use, Everett carries the interpretation “as strong as a boar; as brave as a boar.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Everard has a related form in Everett. In English use, Everett carries the interpretation “as strong as a boar; as brave as a boar.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
A possible origin is Old English, although the derivation remains uncertain.
How it developed
Its Old English formation brings together eofor (“boar”) and heard (“hardy, brave, strong”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Everard has a related form in Everett. The history of Everett gives this family its wider story. Everett’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Everard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 250
- 250 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 306 as a first name in 2020; 681 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.
Everard’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Everard has a diminutive in Evert. Everard shares a linguistic root with Evrard. Everard has a related form in Everett.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Everettvariant · English
- Evertdiminutive · Dutch
- Evrardcontraction
- Everardjesdiminutive · Dutch
- Everardjediminutive · Dutch
- Everardtvariant · Dutch
- Everaertvariant · Dutch
- Euerardevariant · English
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Everard
- Everard des BarresGrand Master of the Knights Templar1113–1174
- Everard HomeBritish surgeon (1756–1832)
- Everard ButlerCanadian rower (1885–1958)
- Everard MercurianJesuit Superior General1514–1580
- Everard im ThurnBritish colonial administrator, explorer and author (1852-1932)
- Everard EndtAmerican sailor1893
- Everard t'SerclaesBelgian noble (1320-1388)
- Everard Digby(1578–1606) English conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
- Everard de JongCatholic bishopborn 1958
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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