Everest

• English:/ˈiːvɹɪst/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Everest, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Forrest
• Cedar
• Flint
• Forest
• Denali

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

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

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Èvêrêst

61 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.

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 name·A dictionary of surnames

• In English, Ellipsis of Mount Everest.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, mtn.. Himalayas

  as a name·Pronouncing 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.

• George Everestb. 1790GBWelsh surveyor and geographer (1790–1866)
• Mary Everest Booleb. 1832GBauthor of didactic works on mathematics (1832-1916)
• Barbara Everestb. 1890GBBritish actress (1890-1968)

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).

52 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.

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

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?

In English /ˈiːvɹɪst/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Everest?

In the United States, the national register counted about 777 people named Everest, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Thailand, Spain, India and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.