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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on the edge of an escarpment, from Middle English evere ‘edge’, a word that is probably of Old English origin, though unattested.
  • English : patronymic from the Middle English personal name Ever, from Old English Eofor ‘boar’.
  • North German and Dutch : patronymic from Evert.

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