Beverly
given name · Latin script
Meaning: person from Beverley, Yorkshire, meaning ‘beaver lodge’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛvəʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beverly is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 718(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 785
- IEIreland≈1 in 871
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #417 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 553 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 702 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Beverley in JM Jamaica.
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)
person from Beverley, Yorkshire, meaning ‘beaver lodge’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beverly 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 785 | — | Beverly | 21 |
| US United States | #175 | 249,640 | 1 in 1.3K | 249K | Beverly | 553 |
| PH Philippines | #483 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Beverly | 134 |
| GB United Kingdom | #177 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 5 | Beverly | 237 |
| EG Egypt | #887 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Beverly | 16 |
| GR Greece | #158 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 718 | — | Beverly | 16 |
| SG Singapore | #113 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Beverly | 64 |
| IE Ireland | #136 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 871 | — | Beverly | 34 |
| NZ New Zealand | #150 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 948 | 13 | Beverly | 93 |
| JM Jamaica | #115 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 702 | — | Beverley | 18 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Beverly 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 English, Irish Gaelic; sweet-voiced, melodious.
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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)
- Beverly Clearyb. 1916USAmerican writer of children's books (1916–2021)
- Beverly Pepperb. 1922USAmerican artist (1922-2020)
- Beverly Garlandb. 1926USAmerican actress (1926–2008)
- Beverly Sillsb. 1929USAmerican operatic soprano (1929-2007)
- Buffy Sainte-Marieb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Beverly Aadlandb. 1942USAmerican film actress (1942-2010)
- Beverly Toddb. 1946USAmerican actress
- Bev Perdueb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician and 73rd Governor of North Carolina
- Beverly D'Angelob. 1951USAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Beverly Johnsonb. 1952USAmerican model and actress
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 77 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 249K | #219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #219 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 246 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1972 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1993 | 3 | #623 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Beverly mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Beverley, Yorkshire, meaning ‘beaver lodge’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Beverly a male or female name?
- Beverly is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Beverly?
- In the etymology graph, Beverley is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Beverly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Beverly in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beverly.
- How common is the name Beverly?
- In the United States, the national register counted 249,640 people named Beverly in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Beverly compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Beverly is the 113th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Beverly?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛvəʎi/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Beverly?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beverlyThe 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, “Beverly” — the 113th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.