Variant of Everett, from Germanic 'Eberhard' meaning 'strong or brave boar.'
Everrett is an elaborated variant of Everett, a name with sturdy Anglo-Saxon roots. It derives from the Old High German Eberhard — a compound of eber (wild boar) and hard (brave, strong, hardy) — meaning, essentially, "brave as a boar." The wild boar was a potent symbol of ferocity and courage in Germanic warrior culture; it appeared on helmets and shields, and to invoke the boar in a child's name was to express a hope for formidable strength of character.
The Normans carried the name to England as Everard, and its gradual English evolution eventually produced Everett. Edward Everett, the nineteenth-century American statesman and orator, lent the name intellectual gravitas; he was the featured speaker at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863 — the same ceremony at which Lincoln delivered his famous two-minute address to Everett's two-hour oration. The name also belongs to Everett Washington, the industrial city named for Charles Colby's son, and to fictional bearers across literature and film, including the roguish Everett McGill in the Coen Brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
— a character who is both pompous and surprisingly lovable. The double-r in Everrett adds visual weight to an already substantial name, signaling careful, deliberate orthography. In an era when parents seek names that feel both historically rooted and individually crafted, Everrett achieves the balance: it sounds at home on a frontier surveyor or a contemporary poet with equal ease. The boar etymology has been long forgotten by most bearers, but the underlying message — steadfast, strong, enduring — has not.