Entry № 1411 · English origin

Beverly Beverly — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEV-er-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Beaver stream (peaked #14 in 1936; Beverly Cleary, Beverly Sills)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "beaver stream (peaked #14 in 1936; beverly cleary, beverly sills)".

Beverly is from an Old English place-name — beofor (beaver) + lēac (stream).

Beaver stream (peaked #14 in 1936; Beverly Cleary, Beverly Sills) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Beverly
Transliteration
Beverly
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛv.ər.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Beverly stands.

Beverly does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Beverlys before her.

Real people
Beverly Cleary
American children's author.
1916 – 2021
Beverly Sills
American coloratura soprano.
1929 – 2007
In fiction
Beverly
Beverly Hills 90210.
1990

Names connected to Beverly.

The number behind Beverly.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Beverly reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.