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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Essex and Hampshire named Eversley. The second is named from Old English eofor ‘boar’ or the personal name Eofor + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The surname is now more frequent in the midlands than the south of England, and it may be that another, lost or unidentified source is involved.

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