Beverly

From an English surname originally derived from the name of a Yorkshire city, itself from Old English beofor “beaver” and possibly licc “stream,” Beverly came into use as a masculine given name in the 19th century and later became a common American feminine name after the publication of George Barr McCutcheon’s 1904 novel Beverly of Graustark. It was most popular in the 1930s and has since greatly declined in use.

Beverly moved from #937 to #948 for girls between 1998 and 1999. Its highest annual birth count came in 1953, with 11,240 births.