Evers
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from OE eofor ‘boar’ or OE *yfer ‘edge, brow of a hill’; first attested Evor de Dalling’ 1221 Cur (Norfolk)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛvəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Evers is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE eofor ‘boar’ or OE *yfer ‘edge, brow of a hill’; first attested Evor de Dalling’ 1221 Cur (Norfolk)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Evers is read(measured from records)
Evers is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English68%
from OE eofor ‘boar’ or OE *yfer ‘edge, brow of a hill’; first attested Evor de Dalling’ 1221 Cur (Norfolk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Everetts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
Patronymic/genitive from Eberhard (also possibly Eber/Ewer); shows genitive -s after weakened -ert/-erz stage.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Patronymischer Familienname aus ahd. ebur, altsächs. eur 'Eber'; Varianten der Eber-/Evert-Gruppe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
patronymisch zu Rufname Ever/Eber; Kurzform mit ahd. ebur 'Eber' oder heri 'Heer'
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Patronymischer Familienname mit starkem Genitiv -s; Variantenbildung mit -ts/-z. Belegt als Evers/Everts/Evertz/Everz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Evers counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 10K | — |
| US United States | — | 9.3K | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 885 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 391 | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 343 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johnny Eversb. 1881USAmerican baseball player and coach (1881-1947)
- Jason Eversb. 1922USAmerican actor (1922-2005)
- Charles Eversb. 1922USAmerican civil rights activist
- Medgar Eversb. 1925USAfrican-American civil rights activist (1925-1963)
- Myrlie Evers-Williamsb. 1933USAmerican civil rights activist
- Tony Eversb. 1951USGovernor of Wisconsin since 2019
- Matt Eversb. 1976USAmerican pair skater
- Meike Eversb. 1977DEGerman rower
- Nico Evers-Swindellb. 1979NZNew Zealand actor
- Korneel Eversb. 1979NLDutch actor, singer, television actor, film actor and cabaret artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 10K | #50 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.3K | #3,809 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.3K | #3,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.9K | #3,869 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 885 | #1,562 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 813 | #1,722 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 391 | #21,148 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 343 | #1,338 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Evers mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE eofor ‘boar’ or OE *yfer ‘edge, brow of a hill’; first attested Evor de Dalling’ 1221 Cur (Norfolk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Evers?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛvəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Evers have the most bearers?
- Evers is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Evers?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eversThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Evers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.