Everton
Everton is a name with a single cultural origin: Portuguese.
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Everton
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Everton is a name with a single cultural origin: Portuguese.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Portuguese
The Story of Everton
American parents first put Everton on the record books as a baby boy name in 1917, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1988, when 20 Evertons were born — ranking #2,765 that year. About 22% of every Everton on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Everton last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 13 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 570 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Everton
Everton is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1917 and has accumulated 570 births in the dataset. Everton's peak popularity came in 1988 when it ranked #2,765. Use the chart and map above to compare Everton's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.