Everest
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Evreux, Normandy; from the Celtic tribal name Eburovices 'dwellers on the River Eure'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛvəɹɪst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Everest is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 1.3Mas เอเวอเรสต์(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 428K
- NONorway1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Everest itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 428K (inferred from the name graph)
777 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Evreux, Normandy; from the Celtic tribal name Eburovices 'dwellers on the River Eure'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Everest 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.
777 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Everest is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, in Eure, Normandy, so called from having apparently been the capital of the Eburovices, a Gaul, tribe. This tribal name appears in turn to derive from the river name Ebura (now the Eure), which may perhaps be akin to a Celt, word for the yew tree (cf. Ive and York). Vars.: Everist, Everix, Everiss, Evreux, Everist; Devereux.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Ellipsis of Mount Everest.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, mtn.. Himalayas
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- George Everestb. 1790GBWelsh surveyor and geographer (1790–1866)
- Mary Everest Booleb. 1832GBauthor of didactic works on mathematics (1832-1916)
- Elizabeth Ann Everestb. 1832GBWinston Churchill's nanny
- Eleanor Everest Freerb. 1864USAmerican composer and philanthropist (1864–1942)
- Barbara Everestb. 1890GBBritish actress (1890-1968)
- Wesley Everestb. 1890USU.S. Army World War I veteran and trade unionist lynched during the Centralia Massacre, Armistice Day 1919 (1890–1919)
- Frank Kendall Everestb. 1920USAmerican air force officer (1920–2004)
- Timothy Everestb. 1961GBWelsh fashion designer
- Erica Everestb. 1972USAmerican adult model & pornographic actress
- Jackson Everestactor
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 52 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 919 | #27,762 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 777 | #30,165 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 761 | #29,296 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #83,004 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #117,049 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #15,766 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #69,073 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #194,464 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #81,932 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Everest mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Evreux, Normandy; from the Celtic tribal name Eburovices 'dwellers on the River Eure'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Everest?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛvəɹɪst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Everest have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 777 people named Everest, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Everest most common?
- Everest is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 428 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Everest?
- In the United States, the national register counted 777 people named Everest in 2010, about 1 in 428 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/everestThe 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, “Everest”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.