Every

surname · Latin script

Meaning: All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Every is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,193 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • JMJamaica≈1 in 27Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 67K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 120K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,193 people, 2010

Record sources
258 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Every is found

(measured from records)

Every counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Every is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,1931 in 279K1.3KEvery258
GB United Kingdom≈560 est.≈1 in 124K—Every98
AU Australia≈410 est.≈1 in 67K—Every78
CA Canada≈240 est.≈1 in 169K—Every56
ZA South Africa≈240 est.≈1 in 271K—Every18
JM Jamaica≈100 est.≈1 in 27K—Every2
NZ New Zealand≈26 est.≈1 in 201K—Every19

1,193 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Every is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Evéry

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Every is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, alternative form of everich

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
16001700180019002000Henry Every, b. 1659Sheila Burnford, b. 1918Matt Every, b. 1983
  • Henry Everyb. 1659GBEnglish captain and pirate
  • Sheila Burnfordb. 1918GBnot in their usual nameBritish-Canadian writer
  • Matt Everyb. 1983USAll-American college golfer, professional golfer, PGA Tour member

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Every mean, and where does it come from?
All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Every?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Every, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled every. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Every?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,193 people named Every in 2010, about 1 in 279 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/every

The 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, “Every” — ranked 19144th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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