Everett

Everett is the 910th most common surname in the United States, shared by 37,752 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,917.

By the numbers

People: 37,752
Rank: 910th
How common: 1 in 7,917
Per 100,000: 12.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Dutch Everaert or Everardt (late 16th C.).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Everett described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.2%
Black, not Hispanic 23.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Everett

Rupert Everett (born 1959)British actor
Hugh Everett III (1930–1982)US physicist and discoverer of the relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics
Edward Everett (1794–1865)American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat and orator
Chad Everett (1937–2012)American actor
Daniel Everett (born 1951)American linguist
Percival Everett (born 1956)American writer
Betty Everett (1939–2001)American recording artist; soul singer and pianist
Mark Oliver Everett (born 1963)American rock musician

People named Everett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Everett

Also a first name

Everett has been given to 137,101 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.