Beverley

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Beverley: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Beverley: Recorded since 1952, it reached #40 in 1955, and it was last ranked in 2019.

4registrars recorded it
63times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#40highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2019

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#848
1997	#850
1998	#925
1999	#1018
2000	#897
2001	#1520
2002	#1928
2003	#1056
2004	#1836
2005	#1121
2006	#2137
2007	#1337
2008	#1302
2009	#3031
2010	#3533
2011	#2636
2012	#4171
2013	#3160
2014	#5691
2016	#5785
2017	#4063
2018	#5666
2019	#5591

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 22 of the 40 years from 1966 to 2005.

In 2005: #689 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1121 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1952–2019 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #42 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1954–1963
Highest recorded position: #40 among girls in New Zealand, in 1955 (recorded 1954–1963).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #5591 among girls in England and Wales, in 2019.
England and Wales · Girls

Beverley appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 23 ranked years and 298 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1952.

Beverley across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Beverley's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#344 (1966)	#253 (1967)	#689 (2005)	22 of 40	110 (1966–2005)	9 (1970)
England and Wales · Girls	#848 (1996)	#848 (1996)	#5591 (2019)	23 of 24	298 (1996–2019)	26 (1996)
New Zealand · Girls	#41 (1954)	#40 (1955)	#100 (1963)	9 of 10	996 (1954–1963)	155 (1955)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#42 (1952)	#42 (1952)	#84 (1960)	9 of 9	1,506 (1952–1960)	235 (1952)

Beverley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Beverley in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	95	4 of 10	24
2000sbusiest	159	10 of 10	16
2010s	44	9 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Beverley appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1952 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #40 in New Zealand in 1955.

Beverley's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1302	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1337	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1121	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1056	22	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1018	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#925	23	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#850	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#848	26	High	Verified
1960	New South Wales, Australia	female	#84	100	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	103	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	female	#68	125	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	female	#59	157	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	female	#60	152	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	female	#46	208	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#45	194	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	female	#42	232	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	female	#42	235	Insufficient	Not yet available
1963	New Zealand	female	#100	68	High	Verified
1961	New Zealand	female	#100	76	High	Verified
1960	New Zealand	female	#81	90	High	Verified
1959	New Zealand	female	#69	107	High	Verified
1958	New Zealand	female	#67	110	High	Verified
1957	New Zealand	female	#61	113	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	female	#52	123	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	female	#40	155	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	female	#41	154	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#415	5	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	7	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	8	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#468	4	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#455	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	7	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	6	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	5	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#383	5	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#282	9	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#287	7	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#253	8	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#344	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1952 and 2019, ranked in 55 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #40, first reached in 1955.

It held a top-100 place in 11 years, 10 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 235 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1952.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1954, and 44 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Beyonce · #655, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rowan · #41, 55y
Shelley · #37, 53y
Ailbhe · #44, 59y
Rochelle · #32, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Katrine · #40, 64y
Brenda · #41, 71y
Colleen · #41, 64y
Joachim · #41, 63y

Beverley was ranked #40 in New Zealand · Girls in 1955. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Beverley and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Beverley without appearing here.

Beverley moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 1996 they stood at #848 and #848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #850 and #1015.
Karin Compare
In 1978 they stood at #468 and #468 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1979 that had become #467 and #523.
Violet Compare
In 1986 they stood at #523 and #523 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1987 that had become #417 and #446.

Moved ahead of Beverley

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3160 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1628.
Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3160 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Tove Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2674.
Hunter Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3160 and #4050 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2966.

Moved the opposite way to Beverley

Aisling Compare
Between 1966 and 2005 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Beverley went from #344 to #689 while Aisling went from #100 to #31.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1966 and 2005 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Beverley went from #344 to #689 while Alexandra went from #288 to #81.
Andrea Compare
Between 1966 and 2005 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Beverley went from #344 to #689 while Andrea went from #185 to #110.
Anna Compare
Between 1966 and 2005 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Beverley went from #344 to #689 while Anna went from #36 to #21.

Moved the same way as Beverley

Audrey Compare
Between 1966 and 2005 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Beverley went from #344 to #689 and Audrey from #63 to #461.
Barbara Compare
Between 1966 and 2005 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Beverley went from #344 to #689 and Barbara from #48 to #689.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1966 and 2005 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Beverley went from #344 to #689 and Deirdre from #7 to #398.
Evelyn Compare
Between 1966 and 2005 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Beverley went from #344 to #689 and Evelyn from #90 to #232.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1952 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #40 in New Zealand in 1955. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Beverley

Beverley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Beverley across 4 official records

Beverley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Beverley appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Beverley

Beverley and the names beside it

Beverley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Beverley

Moved the opposite way to Beverley

Moved the same way as Beverley

Beverley at a glance

Beverley across 4 official records

Beverley by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Beverley appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Beverley

Beverley and the names beside it

Beverley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Beverley

Moved the opposite way to Beverley

Moved the same way as Beverley