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Beverley

#8,443 in 2025Girls' name

Beaver + clearing

Beverley has been given to 13,469 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #8,443 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1938, with 407 recorded.

Babies named Beverley, 2025

1 in 276,000

Beverley over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Beverley: meaning, origin, and history

Beaver + clearing

surname transfer

What Beverley means

Beverley means “beaver + clearing”, associated with befer and lēah.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English befer (“beaver”) + lēah (“clearing”). Equivalent to Beaver + -ley (“lea”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Beverley (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Beverley is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Beverley comes through Old English befer.

Beverley is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Beverley is pronounced /ˈbɛvə(ɹ)li/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,062 girls were recorded with the name Beverley between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 407 in 1938; its best national rank was #309 in 1938.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,355 in 2020 to #8,443 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,867 in 2015 to #8,443 in 2025.

In the United States, 407 boys were recorded with the name Beverley between 1912 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,788 in 1914.

How common is Beverley?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,443
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Beverley sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beverley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Beverleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beverley was born before 1942 — so the typical Beverley is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,020
People you could plausibly meet
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1930s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (3,511).

Is Beverley rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,925
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,912
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,424
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.9%
Peak was 1938 (407)
Years since peak
87
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#309
1938

Spellings of Beverley

Beverley is not the most common spelling — Beverly is, with 84.6% against Beverley's 2.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Beverley is used

Across 1910–2025, Beverley was most concentrated in Vermont — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 15,477 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Vermont1 in 5,000
  2. 2Virginia1 in 5,882
  3. 3Maine1 in 6,250
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 6,250
  5. 5Michigan1 in 7,692
  6. 6Oregon1 in 8,333
  7. 7California1 in 11,111
  8. 8Colorado1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Beverley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Beverley around the world

Where Beverley ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1995
    #493
    in 1995
  • Ireland
    1966–2005
    #689
    in 2005
  • France
    1983–2012
    #7,702
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2012
    #871
    in 2012
  • New South Wales
    1952–1960
    #84
    in 1960

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Beverley

People whose public names include Beverley, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Beverley in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Beverley. Linked forms have their own page here.

BeverleBeverly

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Beverley by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,443
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,912
Best rank ever
#309
1938
Peak year
1938
407 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,062
Count in 2025
12

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,788
1914
Peak year
1922
16 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
407
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Beverley

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Beverley

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Beverley, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Beverley

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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