Beverley
Beverley was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,443 among girls’ names; 13,469 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,140 Americans named Beverley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 67 and 83.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beverley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Beverley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Beverley is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “beaver” (befer) and “clearing” (lēah).
From Old English befer (“beaver”) + lēah (“clearing”). Equivalent to Beaver + -ley (“lea”).
/ˈbɛvə(ɹ)li/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Beverley?
#8,443 among girls’ names, 2025
Beverley rose from #16,867 in 2015 to #8,443 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 7.5 per million.
414 babies in 1938, the peak
Beverley peaked in 1938, when 414 babies were given it (407 girls, #309 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,443 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,368 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,124 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,617 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,285 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,355 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,606 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,936 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,821 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,110 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,867 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,967 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,377 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,306 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,725 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,954 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,592 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,766 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,477 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,467 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,367 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,273 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,700 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,571 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,688 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,709 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,493 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,758 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,652 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,708 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,573 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,263 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,407 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,988 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,266 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,125 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,272 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,493 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,010 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,278 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,762 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,357 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,949 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,068 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,083 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,546 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 64 | #1,406 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,363 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,314 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 74 | #1,253 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 121 | #956 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 104 | #1,052 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 131 | #925 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 139 | #916 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 171 | #782 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 167 | #789 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 206 | #685 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 236 | #637 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 231 | #629 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 237 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 253 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1953 | 249 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1952 | 251 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1951 | 277 | #491 | 0.15 |
| 1950 | 283 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1949 | 265 | #497 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 313 | #452 | 0.18 |
| 1947 | 373 | #421 | 0.21 |
| 1946 | 352 | #412 | 0.22 |
| 1945 | 286 | #420 | 0.22 |
| 1944 | 367 | #364 | 0.28 |
| 1943 | 394 | #364 | 0.28 |
| 1942 | 377 | #360 | 0.28 |
| 1941 | 348 | #355 | 0.29 |
| 1940 | 350 | #343 | 0.31 |
| 1939 | 341 | #344 | 0.31 |
| 1938 | 407 | #309 | 0.37 |
| 1937 | 371 | #323 | 0.35 |
| 1936 | 370 | #317 | 0.36 |
| 1935 | 350 | #341 | 0.33 |
| 1934 | 347 | #341 | 0.33 |
| 1933 | 310 | #356 | 0.31 |
| 1932 | 337 | #345 | 0.32 |
| 1931 | 318 | #361 | 0.30 |
| 1930 | 360 | #350 | 0.32 |
| 1929 | 315 | #378 | 0.28 |
| 1928 | 321 | #378 | 0.28 |
| 1927 | 272 | #418 | 0.23 |
| 1926 | 227 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1925 | 187 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1924 | 147 | #620 | 0.12 |
| 1923 | 131 | #643 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 98 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 93 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 72 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 58 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 66 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 48 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,445 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,240 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,865 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,669 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Beverley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,469 Americans recorded as Beverley, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Beverley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beverley, and how old are they?
6,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 46% of the 13,469 Americans ever recorded as Beverley. The median Beverley alive today is 75 years old; half are between 67 and 83.
The 2020 Census counted 10,730 people named Beverley (10,598 women and girls, 132 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,910 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,310 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 565 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 165 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 63 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 112 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Beverley born?
The states with the most babies named Beverley are California, New York and Michigan, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,447 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 886 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 761 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 712 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 584 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 565 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 541 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 406 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 321 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 268 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Beverley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Beverley is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1912 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Beverley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 399,671 babies since 1880, Beverley is the second most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 266 babies (4.5%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Beverley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Beverley and names like it
- Compare Beverley and BeverlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBeverley peaked in 1938.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beverley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Beverley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1938The year the most babies were named Beverley.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Beverley alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.