Averil
AV-er-il, AV-ril
English
"boar battle"
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Averil Origin and Meaning
The name Averil is a girl's name of English origin meaning "boar battle".
One of the rare English surname names originally derived from a female given name: Eoforhild (Everild), meaning "boar battle". Also spelled Averill, it's an extremely rare choice today, but shares sounds with fashionable Ava and Avery.
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Famous People Named Averil
- Averil Maureen Anita "Lana" MorrisEnglish actress
- Averil Ivespseudonym for English romance writer Ida Pollock
- Averil LeimonScottish psychologist and writer
The name Averil in Pop Culture
- Averil Lesterheroine of "Averil's Atonement", a story written by Anne Shirley in "Anne of Avonlea" by L.M. Montgomery
- Variations: AverildaAverill, Averilla, Avril, Everelda, Everell, Everil, Everild, Everilda, Everildis, Everill, etc.
- A vernacular form of Everild (the name of a 7thcentury English saint); it survived for centuries in Yorkshire.