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Beverley

Beverley: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“beaver meadow”
Origin
Old English
Say it
BEV-er-lee · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls (97% of all uses)

Beverley is from an English place-name derived from Old English beofor 'beaver' and lēah 'clearing, meadow.' It is an older spelling variant of Beverly.

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How popular is Beverley?

20242.1 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Beverley in 20247

Peak year1938

Total US babies since 188013,457

Beverley is rising: use over the last five years is 2.3× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Beverley

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Beverlybeaver stream · Old English
  • Audreynoble strength · Old English
  • Ashleyash tree clearing · Old English
  • Oakleyoak clearing · Old English
  • Hadleyheather field · Old English
  • Blakelydark wood or clearing · Old English
  • KimberlyCyneburg's meadow · Old English
  • Presleypriest's meadow · Old English

Beverley questions

What does the name Beverley mean?

Beverley means "beaver meadow". It comes from Old English. Beverley is from an English place-name derived from Old English beofor 'beaver' and lēah 'clearing, meadow.' It is an older spelling variant of Beverly.

Is Beverley a boy or girl name?

Beverley is mainly a girl's name in US records (97% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Beverley?

7 US babies were named Beverley in 2024. Its peak year was 1938.

How do you pronounce Beverley?

Beverley is usually pronounced BEV-er-lee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.