Entry № 1095 · English origin

Avery Avery — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AY-ver-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Ruler of elves"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (surname)

A name that means "ruler of elves".

Avery is an English surname turned given name — from the Old French Auvery, itself from the Old Germanic Alberic, meaning "elf ruler" or "wise counsel." The same root that gives Aubrey, Albert, and the medieval king of the dwarves Alberic.

Avery is unisex but used overwhelmingly for girls in the U.S. since the 2000s.

Ruler of elves.

The name in its native script.

Avery
Transliteration
Avery
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪ.və.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Avery stands.

Avery does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Averys before her.

Real people
Avery Brundage
American sports administrator, former IOC president.
1887 – 1975
In fiction

Names connected to Avery.

The number behind Avery.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Avery reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.