Everett
2025 SSA
About Everett
Everett is a preppy but outdoorsy name, with wintery New England vibes. In the last decade, it’s had a leap in popularity, perhaps because of its similarity to trendy girls’ names like Ava and Scarlett, or perhaps because it offers a fresh alternative to 90’s style Evan and Brett.
Despite its sleek, sharp sounds, Everett’s meaning lends it some rugged charm. An English variation of the German Eberhard, it means "brave as a wild boar".
George Clooney and Dermot Mulroney drew attention to the name when they played Everetts on screen back in the 2000s. More recently, Everett Ross from Marvel’s Black Panther, and Everett Acker from the television series Breaking Badshone a spotlight back on the name.
Everett feels fresh and contemporary, fitting into the trend of surnames-as-given-names and getting cool points from its fashionable V sound. But it also a name with a history. It ranked in the US Top 100 at the beginning of the 20th century, offering it a sense of solidity.
Now, it’s revived and more loved than ever, with 4000 parents choosing it for their sons each year. Gentle but sophisticated, wild but refined, Everett could become an even more poplar choice in the future.
If the sound of Everett appeals to you but the popularity doesn’t, you could consider Barrett, Truett, Beckett, Merritt, or Garnett. If its style intrigues you but you want something more unique perhaps Everest, Wilder, Patton, Roscoe, or Huxley could be a place to start.
Pronounced EV-ur-et.
As of October 2026, Everett ranked #77 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #28.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #167 | 2,538 | 1,321.3 |
| 2015 | #136 | 3,050 | 1,591.2 |
| 2016 | #114 | 3,513 | 1,851.2 |
| 2017 | #106 | 3,780 | 2,042.2 |
| 2018 | #95 | 4,029 | 2,218.4 |
| 2019 | #94 | 4,082 | 2,275.1 |
| 2020 | #90 | 4,013 | 2,324.9 |
| 2021 | #82 | 4,250 | 2,429.3 |
| 2022 | #81 | 4,139 | 2,370.6 |
| 2023 | #88 | 3,826 | 2,236.7 |
| 2024 | #85 | 3,947 | 2,290.9 |
| 2025 | #77 | 4,287 | 2,509.8 |
World rankings
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Everett on lists
Famous Everetts
- Everett McKinley Dirksen
U.S. Senator from Illinois
- Everett Sloane
American actor
- Everett Eric Lindsay
American NFL football player
- Everett Norris Case
American college basketball coach
- Everett Dean
American college basketball coach
- (Charles) Everett Koop
former U.S. Surgeon General
- (Lewis) Everett Scott
American baseball player
- (James) Everett Sanders
American political adviser and party chair
- Everett M. "Busy" Arnold
American male founder of Quality Comics
- (Clarke) Everett Hanson (b. 2007)
son of singer Isaac Hanson
- Everett Mokarow (b. 2007)
son of former Miss USA Courtney Gibbs and Kevin Mokarow
- Everett Floyd Abrams (b. 2012)
son of TV journalist Dan Abrams and reality TV personality Florinka Pesenti
- Everett Joseph Wright (b. 2013)
son of country music singer Chely Wright
- Everett DiSalvo
son of director Lino DiSalvo
- Thomas "Tom" Everett Scott
American actor
- John Everett Millais
British painter
- Darren Everett Criss
American actor/singer
- Rupert Everett
English actor
- Dylan Everett
Canadian actor
Everett in pop culture
- Everett Ulysses McGill
main character in film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
- Everett Hills
Congregational minister in "Mourning Becomes Electra"
- Everett Stone
character in film "The Family Stone"
- Everett Hitch
soft,spoken gunslinger in "Appaloosa" by Robert B. Parker
- Everett K. Ross
character in Marvel Comics
- Mark Everett Sloan
character on TV's "Grey's Anatomy"
Variations & nicknames
More nicknames
- Ev