Everett is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Old English name Eoforheard and the Germanic Eberhard.
Eoforheard has two elements: 'eofor' (boar), and 'heard' (brave, hardy). Thus Everett means brave as a boar or strong as a boar. Spelling variants include Evert (Dutch and Swedish) and Everette.
People with or referred to by the name include:
Arts and music
- Everett Phipps Babcock, architect
- Everett Barksdale, American jazz guitarist
- E. F. Bleiler, American science fiction editor
- Everett Bradley (musician), American multi-instrumentalist
- Everett B. Cole, American science fiction writer
- Everett De Morier, American writer and playwright
- Everett Garrison, maker of bamboo fly rods
- Everett M. Gilmore, American tuba player
- Everett Helm, American composer
- Everett Gee Jackson, American impressionist painter
- Everett Leroy Jones, birthname of writer Amiri Baraka
- Everett Kinstler, American artist
- Everett Lee, American conductor and violinist
- Everett Lewis, American independent filmmaker
- Everett McCorvey, American tenor, conductor, and producer
- Everett Morton, English drummer
- Everett Nourse, organist
- Everett Owens, pen name for Rob Thomas
- Everett Peck, American illustrator, comics artist, cartoonist and animator
- J. Everett Prewitt, American novelist
- Everett Robbins, American pianist and composer
- Everett Ruess, American artist, poet, and writer
- Everett S. Sherman, covered bridge builder
- Everett Shinn, American realist painter
- Everett Spruce, American painter
- Everett Titcomb, American organist and composer
- Everett True, American musician and journalist
- Everett Warner, American impressionist painter
- Everett Woods, architect
