Everly is an English surname taken from a place name and means "boar meadow", from the Old English eofor, wild boar, and leah, clearing. It was known through the Everly Brothers of rock-and-roll fame before parents adopted it as a fresh girls' name in the 2010s. Everly stood at number 9394 in 2000, entered the top 1000 in 2012 and the top 100 in 2017, peaked at number 42 in 2019 and ranks number 91 in 2025.