Evert

Where Evert comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Evert.

Evert through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1890
    Evert Taube born
    Swedish author, artist, composer and singer
  3. 1901
    Peak, #407
    21 babies named Evert, its best rank.
  4. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #744.
  5. 1929
    Evert Gunnarsson born
    Swedish rower
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Evert Taube · Swedish author, artist, composer and singer, 1890–1976
  • Evert Gunnarsson · Swedish rower, 1929–2022
  • Evert van Aelst · painter from the Northern Netherlands, 1602–1657
  • Evert Kroon · Dutch water polo player, 1946–2018
  • Evert Dolman · Dutch road bicycle racer, 1946–1993

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.