What does Avery mean, popularity, numerology and more. The name Avery is of French origin. The meaning of Avery is blonde ruler, elf ruler. It is also of German origin, where its meaning is noble, bear like and English origin, where its meaning is elf counsel.very is used as both a boys and girls name. It consists of 5 letters and 3 syllables and is pronounced A-ve-ry. In the U.S. in 2014, it ranked 13 in baby name popularity for girls with 9517 occurrences. It ranked 186 in popular baby names for boys with 2269 occurrences.