# Everard (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/everard/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “wild boar”, “hard”, “brave” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Euerarde, Everett |
| US babies named this | 250 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 250 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Old English Eofurheard, Eoferard, from Proto-West Germanic *Eburahardu, from *ebur (“wild boar”) + *hardu (“hard, brave”). Reinforced by cognate names from Anglo-Norman and Middle Dutch. Doublet of Everett.

## What it means

Everard is grouped under brave.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 5 | 3,743 |
| 1944 | 8 | 2,704 |
| 1945 | 7 | 2,834 |
| 1947 | 5 | 3,916 |
| 1951 | 6 | 3,474 |
| 1957 | 7 | 3,347 |
| 1960 | 5 | 4,220 |
| 1962 | 6 | 3,764 |
| 1965 | 7 | 3,341 |
| 1967 | 5 | 4,151 |
| 1975 | 6 | 5,010 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,167 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,575 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,646 |
| 1998 | 5 | 10,127 |

## People named Everard

- Everard Home, British surgeon (1756–1832)
- Everard Butler, Canadian rower (1885–1958)
- Robert Everard Woodson, American botanist (1904–1963)
- Everard F. im Thurn, British colonial administrator, explorer and author (1852-1932)
- Everard Endt, American sailor
- Everard 't Serclaes, Belgian noble (1320-1388)
- Everard Digby, (1578–1606) English conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
- Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player (1877–1968)
- Howard Koch, American screenwriter (1901-1995)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.