Avery


Gender:
Origin: French
172 famous people named Avery found on Wikipedia.
125807 female, 55613 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 16-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 12-th in year 2013
Used in: English

Meanings

A male given name: from Old English words meaning “elf” and “favor.”.

Avery is a given name taken from Avery, an English surname that was itself derived from an Old French version of the name Alfred or the Ancient Germanic name Alberich. The meaning of the name is derived from the Old English words aelf, meaning elf, and raed, meaning counsel.
Avery was originally more common as a boys' name, but it is becoming more popular and more common as a girls' name. The name was the 48th most common name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 221st most popular name for boys born there in 2007. The name was the 634th most common given name for males in the United States in the 1910 census.
In the Russian language, Avery (Аве́рий) is a colloquial form of the male given name Averky.

Derived from Alfred, means: wise, ruling with elf-wisdom.

Famous People: 172 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Steven Avery 1962 American man convicted of murder and previously wrongly convicted of rape
2 Jackson Avery
3 Avery Bradley 1990 American basketball player
4 Avery Brooks 1948 American actor, director, musician, singer, and professor
5 Avery Johnson 1965 Basketball player and coach
6 Sean Avery 1980 Canadian ice hockey player
7 Avery Brundage 1887 IOC president
8 Tex Avery 1908 American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director
9 Margaret Avery 1944 Actress from the United States
10 Paul Avery 1934 American journalist
11 Shondrella Avery 1971 American actress
12 Avery Schreiber 1935 American comedian
13 Oswald Avery 1877 Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher
14 Cam Avery 1988 Musician
15 Eric Avery 1965 American musician
16 Val Avery 1924 American actor
17 Charlotte Avery British actress
18 David Avery 1986 British film, television and theatre actor
19 Avery Dulles 1918 Catholic cardinal
20 Milton Avery 1885 American artist
21 Avery Wilson 1995
22 Avery Haines 1966 Canadian journalist
23 Dylan Avery 1983 Filmmaker
24 Avery Bailey Clark
25 Phyllis Avery 1922 Actress, real estate agent
26 William Avery 1979 American basketball player
27 Donnie Avery 1984 American football player
28 Avery Storm 1981 American singer
29 Tol Avery 1915 American actor
30 Avery Williamson 1991 American gridiron football player
31 Avery Fisher 1906 American audio specialist
32 Avery Paraiso 1994 Filipino-Irish commercial model
33 Philip Avery 1959 British weather forecaster
34 Avery Rockefeller 1903 American financier
35 Avery Hopwood 1882 American playwright
36 Steve Avery 1966 American football player
37 Avery Corman 1935 American writer
38 Mary Ellen Avery 1927 American pediatrician
39 Cyrus Avery 1871 American businessman
40 Tom Avery 1975 British explorer
41 Avery Bourne Illinois politician
42 Avery 1994 American singer-songwriter
43 Greg Avery 1963 British animal rights activist
44 Kate Avery 1991 British long-distance runner
45 Sewell Avery 1874 Manufacturing businessman
46 Avery Waddell 1962 American actor
47 Xavier Avery 1990 American baseball player
48 Rachel Foster Avery 1858 American suffragist
49 Isaac E. Avery 1828 Confederate Army officer
50 Patricia Avery 1902 Silent film actress
51 Avery John 1975 Trinidad and Tobago footballer
52 Colton Avery
53 Peter Avery 1923 British scholar
54 Mark Avery 1960 American actor
55 Kevin Avery 1957 American writer
56 Avery Scharer 1986
57 Clinton Avery 1987 New Zealand racing cyclist
58 Susan Avery 1950
59 Avery Alexander 1910 Louisiana civil rights leader and politician
60 Dennis T. Avery 1936 American food analyst
61 Myron Avery 1899 American lawyer, hiker and explorer
62 Chris Avery 1975 American football player
63 Avery Craven 1885 American historian
64 Fiona Avery 1974 Writer
65 R. Stanton Avery 1907 Inventor
66 Bryan Avery 1944 British architect
67 Rachel Avery American actress
68 Avery Sharpe 1954 American musician
69 Gillian Avery 1926 English children's writer and children's literature scholar
70 Ellis Avery American writer
71 Waightstill Avery 1741 American politician
72 Brian Avery 1979 American activist
73 John Scales Avery 1933 American chemist
74 Joseph C. Avery 1817 American politician
75 Valeen Tippetts Avery 1936 American biographer and historian
76 Susy Avery 1947 American politician from the state of Michigan
77 Avery August Belizean academic
78 Avery Warley 1987 Basketball player
79 Byllye Avery 1937 American activist
80 Bill Avery 1942 American politician
81 Alex Avery American writer
82 Benjamin Avery 1684 English physician
83 Avery Robinson 1878 American composer
84 Avery Ng 1976
85 Stephen Morehouse Avery 1893 American writer
86 Harold Avery 1867 English author of children's literature
87 Avery Saltzman Canadian actor
88 Michael Avery American lawyer
89 Avery Parrish 1917 American musician
90 Avery Atkins 1987 Player of American football
91 Clarence W. Avery 1882 Driving force behind Ford Motor Company's moving assembly line/president/chairman of auto-body supplier Murray Corporation
92 Avery Cardoza 1957 American poker player
93 Ken Avery 1944 American football player
94 Avery Moss
95 Ralph Avery 1907 American painter
96 March Avery 1932 American artist
97 Martha Gallison Moore Avery 1851 Socialist converted to Roman-catholic/founder:Catholic labor organization Common Cause Society/Catholic Truth Guild
98 Avery Romero 1993 Professional baseball player
99 Avery Claflin 1898 American composer
100 Nigel Avery 1967 New Zealand weightlifter
101 Elroy M. Avery 1844 American politician
102 Samuel Putnam Avery 1822 American art dealer
103 Sid Avery 1918 American photographer
104 Ephraim Kingsbury Avery 1799 American Methodist minister
105 Teodross Avery 1973 American jazz tenor saxophonist
106 Avery Gilbert American psychologist
107 Avery Sandberg American geneticist
108 Henry Avery 1885 New Zealander rugby union player (1885-1961)
109 Wendell Avery 1956 American football player and coach
110 Jeff Avery 1953 Canadian football player
111 Coleman W. Avery 1880 American judge
112 Avery Patterson American football player
113 Dawn Avery American cellist
114 Edward Avery 1790 Ohio jurist and politician
115 Graham Avery 1929 New Zealand racing cyclist
116 Avery Jenkins
117 Carlos Avery
118 Daniel Avery 1798 American Mormon leader
119 Avery C. Upchurch 1928 American mayor
120 Mike Avery 1968 American soccer coach
121 William Tecumsah Avery 1819 American politician
122 William Waightstill Avery 1816 American politician
123 Avery Young
124 Avery Kier 1905
125 Lester Avery American architect
126 William H. Avery 1912 Influential aeronautical engineer
127 Avery W. Severance 1819 New York politician
128 Albert Avery English rugby league player
129 Leo Avery 1938 English abbot
130 Ray Avery 1920 American photographer
131 Jim Avery 1944 American football player
132 Avery Skinner 1796 New York politician
133 Alan K. Avery 1961 Art dealer
134 James Avery 1825 United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
135 Samuel Avery English politician
136 Robert Avery 1948 British canoeist
137 Avery Blake Lacrosse player and coach
138 Frank Avery 1830 Member of the Wisconsin State Senate/the Wisconsin State Assembly
139 Avery Garrett 1916 American politician
140 Don Avery 1921 American football player
141 William Beilby Avery 1854 British philatelist
142 Sonny Avery 1914 Cricketer
143 Avery Clayton 1947 American nonprofit executive
144 Avery Ardovino 1992 American ski jumper
145 Stanley R. Avery 1879 Composer and organist
146 Ryan Avery 1982 Canadian lacrosse player
147 Dennis Avery 1946 American politician
148 Avery Stafford 1965 American singer
149 Robert Stanton Avery 1808 Mathematician
150 William B. Avery 1840 Medal of Honor recipient
151 Ham Avery 1854 American baseball umpire
152 Avery Dennis Sr. 1929
153 Melzar Avery 1854 Canadian politician
154 Trevor Avery British curator
155 Charles Avery 1940 British art historian
156 Avery D. Andrews 1864
157 Bert Avery 1907 Australian rules footballer
158 Jonathan Avery 1988
159 Kenneth Stopford Avery 1922 Jazz musician, radio programme manager, songwriter
160 John Avery 1927 Commissioner:New South Wales Police
161 George Avery 1927 American specialist in literature
162 Earle Avery 1894
163 Ron Avery
164 Avery Preesman 1968 Dutch painter
165 Thomas Avery 1813 Avery, Thomas (1813–1894), scale manufacturer and local politician
166 Roland Avery 1927 New Zealand rugby league referee
167 Catharine Hitchcock Tilden Avery 1844 American educator, author
168 Alphonso Calhoun Avery
169 Avery Judd Skilton 1802 American physician and naturalist
170 Dwan LeCurtis Jaquan Avery
171 Avery Carrington Character in the video game series Grand Theft Auto
172 Gavin Avery