Last name origin & meaning: English: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements
eber ‘wild boar’ + hard ‘brave’, ‘hardy’, ‘strong’. The
surname was at first found mainly in East Anglia (still one of the
principal locations of the variant Everett), which was an area
of heavy Norman and Breton settlement after the Conquest. This
suggests that the personal name may be of Continental (Norman) origin,
but it is also possible that it swallowed up an unattested Old English
cognate, Eoforheard.
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