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Derives from the medieval Anglo-Saxon female name Eoforhild: Eoforhild- Everhild- Everild- Everil -Averil(l)

Famous real-life people named Averil

Averil Cameron (b. 1940) -- Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at Oxford
Averil Power -- Irish politician
Averil Margaret Lysaght (b. 1905) -- New Zealand scientist and illustrator
Averil Beaumont -- literary pseudonym used by British novelist and translator Margaret Hunt (b. 1831)

Averil in song, story & screen

"Averil's Atonement" is a short story supposedly written by Anne Shirley in L.M. Montgomery's "Anne of the Island" (chapter 12)