Everard

Boys' name

Wild boar + hard, brave

Everard has been given to 250 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Everard, 1998

1 in 735,000

Everard over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Everard: meaning, origin, and history

Wild boar + hard, brave

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Everard means

Everard means “wild boar + hard, brave”, associated with ebur and hardu.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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.

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Origin, language, and formation

Everard is used in English and Dutch.

Everard comes through Old English Eofurheard and Proto-West Germanic *Eburahardu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 250 boys were recorded with the name Everard between 1912 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1920; its best national rank was #2,115 in 1912.

How common is Everard?

Everard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998: 1 in 735,000; 5 of 3,677,189 births
Among boys only: 1 in 382,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1998: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 509,768 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Everard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 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 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Everard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Everards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Everard was born before 1927 — so the typical Everard is around 98 today.

Median birth year: 1927; About 98 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 10.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 63; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Everard 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1920 (15)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,115; 1912

Spellings of Everard

Everard is not the most common spelling — Gerard is, with 86.3% against Everard's 0.37%.

Gerard86.3%58,820
Everardo7.2%4,926
Vernard3.0%2,066
Jerard1.5%1,039
Emerald0.79%538
Sherard0.79%537
Everard0.37%250

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.

Everard around the world

Where Everard 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.

South Australia
1945–1986
#460
in 1986

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Everard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,115; 1912
Peak year: 1920; 15 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1998
All-time count: 250
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Everard

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

Everton Everrett Everson Alucard Deckard Reshard Evelio Everhett Everet Everado Everitt Gaspard Harvard Gerrard Evertte Everest Jerrard Rishard Everick Woodard Glenard Burnard Evelyn Ballard

Sibling names for Everard

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

For a sister

Norine Vina Mozelle Marcelle Oleta Syble Adella Mittie

For a brother

Junius Dock Rupert Orin Otha Hilton Casimir Noble

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