BEVERLY

(origin: Local) From the borough of Beverly in Yorkshire, England; from Belvoir, a beautiful prospect, and ley, a place or field. Some say "the lake of beavers," from Beverlac, and so called from the beavers which abounded in the river Hull, near by.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.