Beverly

Where Beverly comes from

A variant spelling of Beverley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Beverly
  • From a surname
  • Vowel-ended
Beverly through the years
  1. 1893
    First appearance
    #1,437 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1904
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1929
    Beverly Sills born
    American operatic soprano
  4. 1937
    Peak, #14
    9,634 babies named Beverly, its best rank.
  5. 1951
    Beverly D'Angelo born
    American actress
  6. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #91.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1930s to the 1950s in the U.S., partly because of its association with Beverly Hills (where the stars live).
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Beverly Sills · American operatic soprano, 1929–2007
  • Beverly D'Angelo · American actress, born 1951
  • Beverly Aadland · American film actress, 1942–2010
  • Beverly Cleary · American writer of children's books, 1916–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.