Evelina

What Evelina means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Evelina yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,354 in 2015 to #778 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Evelina?

US: Rising: up from #1354 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #735 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 349 girls got the name (#778 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,605 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,470 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls), ID (0.84 per 1,000 girls), CO (0.56 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Evelina is #778 in the US and #542 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Evelina were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Evalina141 US · 8 E&W
• Evaluna119 US
• Avelina73 US · 3 E&W
• Avalina29 US
• Evelyna18 US · 5 E&W
• Evalena12 US
• Evalyna10 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Evelina

Girls

• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*
• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Emory#339Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #339 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Ada#219“noble”^*

For a brother

• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Evelina’s. Rank is US 2025.