Eveleigh

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Eveleth

Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost place in Devon, from the Old English personal name Ifa + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .

Proper noun

Eveleigh (countable and uncountable, plural Eveleighs)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. An inner suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Eveleigh is the 73215^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 265 individuals. Eveleigh is most common among White (93.58%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Eveleigh”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 540.