Avery staat niet in de Bijbel — maar de Schrift staat vol met naamswijzigingen

Avery is not in the Bible. It is also not, any more, the name it was a generation ago — and that turns out to be the interesting part. What the name means Avery is a Norman French form of an older Germanic name — either Alfred (“elf counsel”) or Alberich (“elf ruler”). It came into England with the Normans, settled into a surname, and stayed there for several hundred years. It began as a man’s name. It is now…