English: habitational name from Everleigh in Wiltshire, named from
Old English eofor ‘wild boar’ + leah ‘woodland
clearing’. There is an Everley in North Yorkshire (of the same
derivation), which may be the source of the surname in some instances.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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