Baby name

RARE GIRL · ANGLO-SAXON (LATINIZED), UNCERTAIN
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Everilda

/ev · uh · RIL · duh/


“Likely 'boar battle'”

Likely a Latinized form of Old English Eoforhild, combining 'eofor' ('boar') and 'hild' ('battle') - also rendered as Everild, the name of a 7th-century English saint.

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How it ages.

An obscure medieval saint's name with real Anglo-Saxon warrior roots - virtually unknown today, in any of its scattered usages.

The cultural moment.

Historically used in Anglo-Saxon, medieval English and Romani communities; today it survives only as a rare name in Spanish-speaking families.