Evers Family History
Evers Name Meaning
English: perhaps a variant of Devereux without the fused preposition (Old French de). English: de-aspirated variant of Heaver with post-medieval excrescent -s a habitational name from Hever (Kent) named from Old English hēah ‘high’ + (Kentish) Old English ēfre ‘edge or brow of a hill’. Alternatively the name may derive from some minor place in southeastern England named with Old English ȳfre (Kentish) Old English ēfre Middle English evere ‘edge or brow of a hill tip of a promontory’ with the addition of a prosthetic H-. North German and Dutch: genitivized patronymic from the personal name Evert which lost its t in pronunciation and spelling subsequently; compare Everts . Compare also Avers .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022