Beverley

Meanings

1. A place name:
2. A market town and civil parish with a town council and county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
3. A community in the Rural Municipality of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada.
4. A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia.
5. A town and local government area (the Shire of Beverley) in the Wheatbelt region, Western Australia.
6. A habitational surname from Old English.
7. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

Etymology

From Old English befer (“beaver”) + lēah (“clearing”). Equivalent to Beaver + -ley (“lea”).