Slackware :: Using A $variable With Find -name?

Here is my example code that doesn't work:

find $HOME -type d -name "$WHATEVER" -exec rm -rfv {} ';'

$HOME works ofcourse. it's $WHATEVER that -name doesn't honor. Has to be a variable. I really don't see a way around it because $WHATEVER could be any number of things depending on the circumstance. I've also tried other things:

find $HOME -type d -name '${WHATEVER}' -exec rm -rfv {} ';'

Using backticks will process $WHATEVER but it tries to execute it as a command instead of processing it as an argument to -name....