Avery is an English name ultimately derived from the Old English name Ælfred (Old English form of Alfred), which literally translates to 'elf-counsel'

The surname Avery may also be a derivation of the French place name Évreux.

Prevalence in England In 2014, the name's frequency was highest in Devon (5.9 times the British average), followed by Sussex, Buckinghamshire, Rutland, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Kent, Warwickshire, Cornwall and Somerset.

Notable people with the name

Activism Byllye Avery (born 1937), American health care activist Brian Avery (activist) (born 1979), American human rights activist Greg Avery, British animal rights activist Rachel Foster Avery (1858–1919), American suffragist Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894), American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer; mother-in-law of Rachel Foster Avery

Art and media Brad Avery, guitarist for the rock band Third Day Catharine H. T. Avery (1844–1911), American author, editor, educator Charles Avery (actor) (1873–1926), American silent-film actor, film director, and screenwriter Charles Avery (artist) (born 1973), Scottish artist from Oban Charles Avery (pianist) (1892–1974), American blues and boogie-woogie pianist Eric Avery (born 1965), American musician Fiona Avery (born 1974), American comic book and television writer George Avery (professor) (1926–2004), American professor of German Studies Gillian Avery (1926–2016), British children's writer and scholar Harold Avery (1867–1943), British author of children's literature Jack Avery, member of the American pop band Why Don't We James Avery (1945–2013), American actor James Avery (musician) (1937–2009), American and German pianist and conductor Margaret Avery (fl. 1970s–present), American singer and actress Patricia Avery (1902–1973), American silent film actress Phyllis Avery (1922–2011), American actress Shondrella Avery (fl. 1990s–present), American actress Tom Avery (born 1975), explorer, mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker Val Avery (1924–2009), American actor Valeen Tippetts Avery (1936–2006), American biographer and historian Milton Avery (1885–1965), American Modernist painter Tex Avery (1908-1980), animator and director; creator of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck Susanna Avery-Quash (born 1970), English art historian Alex Avery (born 1971), English actor

Government and politics Bill Avery (born 1940), American politician and professor from Nebraska Carlos Avery (1868–1930), American newspaper publisher and politician from Minnesota Christopher L. Avery (1872–1956), American judge from Connecticut Cyrus Avery (1871–1963), American highway commissioner Isaac E. Avery (1828–1863), Confederate Army colonel during the American Civil War James Avery (American colonist) (1620–1700), Connecticut colonist, legislator, and military commander John Avery (politician) (1824–1914), American politician and physician from Michigan John Keith Avery (1927–2018), Australian law enforcement official from New South Wales Matthew Avery (1834–?), American politician from Alabama Michael T. Avery (1952–2023), American politician from Nebraska Oscar F. Avery (1841–1924), American politician and attorney from Illinois Waightstill Avery (1741–1821), American politician from North Carolina and colonel during the American Revolutionary War William H. Avery (politician) (1911–2009), American politician from Kansas William T. Avery (1819–1880), American politician from Tennessee

Science and engineering Clarence W. Avery (1882–1949), engineer at Ford Motor Company John Scales Avery (1933–2024), theoretical chemist and peace activist Oswald Avery (1877–1955), Canadian-American physician and scientist R. Stanton Avery, (1907–1997), American inventor Ray Avery (scientist) (born 1947), New Zealand pharmaceutical scientist, inventor, author and social entrepreneur Robert Hanneman Avery, founder of the Avery Company, an American farm tractor, truck and automobile manufacturer William C. Avery (1831–1894), American physician and naturalist William H. Avery (engineer) (1912–2004), aeronautics engineer

Sports Albert Avery(1883–1914), English rugby league footballer Donnie Avery (born 1984), American football player Genard Avery (born 1995), American football player George Avery Young (1866–1900), English sportsman who played rugby and cricket Gordon George Avery (1925–2006), Australian track and field athlete James Avery (baseball) (born 1984) Canadian baseball player Jim Avery (American football) (born 1944), American football player John Avery (gridiron football) (born 1976), Canadian football player Nathaniel "Iron Man" Avery (1939–1985), golf caddie, notably for Arnold Palmer Ryan Avery (born 1982), former lacrosse player Sean Avery (born 1980), Canadian professional hockey player Steve Avery (baseball) (born 1970), former Major League Baseball pitcher Tre Avery (born 1997), American football player Will Avery (basketball) (born 1979), professional basketball player Xavier Avery (born 1990), American baseball player

Other Bryan Avery (1944–2017), British architect Clark Moulton Avery (1819–1864), Confederate colonel Ephraim Kingsbury Avery (1799–1869), Methodist minister accused of an 1832 murder Helen Avery (1938–2016), Australian businesswomen Henry Every (or Avery), 17th-century pirate James Avery (Medal of Honor) (1825–1898) Union Navy seaman and recipient of the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War Peter Avery (1923–2008), Fellow of King's College, Cambridge R. Stanton Avery (1907–1997), founder of Avery Dennison Corporation and namesake of Caltech's Avery House Samuel Putnam Avery, (1822–1904) American connoisseur and dealer in art Sewell Avery (1874–1960), American businessman Steven Avery (born 1962), American exonerated by DNA evidence for a crime William Beilby Avery (1854–1908), philatelist

Fictional characters Jackson Avery, in the TV series Grey's Anatomy, or his grandfather, Harper Avery

See also Averin (surname) (), a Russian surname Every (surname) Justice Avery, multiple people

References

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