Avery (surname)

Avery is an English surname of ambiguous origin. Some scholars believe that the name is of Anglo-Norman origin and derived from "Every" or "Evreux". The name may have arrived in England after the Norman Conquest. It is the name of a county in Normandy. It can also be found in the northern Spanish region of Navarra, where the House of Évreux was a ruling royal house from 1328 to 1441. At the time of the,[1] its frequency was highest in Devon (5.9 times the British average), followed by Sussex, Buckinghamshire, Rutland, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Kent, Warwickshire, Cornwall and Somerset.

Averin (Аверины) an ancient Russian family of the nobility in the Golden Horde, on legends originate from the Khazar nobility converted to Judaism. The board is divided horizontally into two parts by the strip consisting of purple color and silver, in the middle of which a silver hexagonal star. [2]

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  1. "Avery Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2014
  2. Аверины
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