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Beverly

Beverly: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“beaver stream”
Origin
Old English
Say it
BEV-er-lee · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

From an English place name, historically Beoferlic, from Old English beofor 'beaver' and leac 'stream'. It later became a surname and then a given name.

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How popular is Beverly?

202472.0 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 Beverly in 2024239

2024 rank#1,046 girls

Peak year1937

Total US babies since 1880382,945

Beverly is rising: use over the last five years is 1.8× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Beverly

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Beverleybeaver meadow · 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

Beverly questions

What does the name Beverly mean?

Beverly means "beaver stream". It comes from Old English. From an English place name, historically Beoferlic, from Old English beofor 'beaver' and leac 'stream'. It later became a surname and then a given name.

Is Beverly a boy or girl name?

Beverly is mainly a girl's name in US records (99% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Beverly?

239 US babies were named Beverly in 2024. Its peak year was 1937.

How do you pronounce Beverly?

Beverly 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.