Evelynn

What Evelynn means

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

Editor’s note Up from #441 in 2015 to #301 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Evelynn?

US: Rising: up from #441 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #1279 in 2015, #1229 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,012 girls got the name (#301 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

• About 1 in 1,588 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,742 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 MT (2.12 per 1,000 girls), SD (1.97 per 1,000 girls), WV (1.97 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Evelynn is #301 in the US and #1229 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 Evelynn were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Evelyn9,123 US · 1,560 E&W
• Avalynn198 US · 4 E&W
• Evalyn151 US · 19 E&W
• Evalynn149 US
• Evelin86 US · 27 E&W
• Evelyne42 US · 17 E&W
• Evelynne52 US · 4 E&W
• Eveline36 US · 16 E&W

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 Evelynn

Girls

• Penelope#22possibly “duck”^*
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Violet#13From the word “violet”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*

For a brother

• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Evelynn’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.