Beverley
A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning beaver stream; a place name.
Beverley by the numbers
In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Beverley. In the US, 8 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 407 babies in 1938, so it is a 1930s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Beverley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean water
Like Beverley, each of these has water in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Mayaillusion; mother; water1,259 in England and Wales (2025)
- Riverflowing water; nature name3,114 in the US (2017)
- Brookesmall stream1,616 in the US (2017)
- Taliagod's dew; form of Thalia or Natalia260 in England and Wales (2025)
- Kendraclear water; from a place name734 in the US (2017)
- Rosemarydew of the sea; the herb rosemary687 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Beverley
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