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Evalyn

#1,430 in 2025Girls' name

Combination of Eva and Lyn

Evalyn has been given to 9,567 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,430 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 331 recorded.

Babies named Evalyn, 2025

1 in 22,000

Evalyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Evalyn: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Eva and Lyn

coinages

What Evalyn means

Evalyn is a compound of Eva and Lyn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Eva + Lyn, or a variant of Evelyn.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Evalyn (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Evalyn is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Evalyn is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eva, Lyn and Evelyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,567 girls were recorded with the name Evalyn between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 331 in 2014; its best national rank was #446 in 1918.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,075 in 2020 to #1,430 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #869 in 2015 to #1,430 in 2025.

How common is Evalyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,000
151 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,430
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,219 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Evalyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,219 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Evalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Evalyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Evalyn was born before 2002 — so the typical Evalyn is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,477
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (2,799).

Is Evalyn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−71
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−355
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−561
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.6%
Peak was 2014 (331)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#446
1918

Spellings of Evalyn

Evalyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 81.2% against Evalyn's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Evalyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Evalyn was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,857 girls, against 1 in 7,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,857
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 3,448
  3. 3Washington1 in 3,846
  4. 4Idaho1 in 4,348
  5. 5Michigan1 in 4,348
  6. 6Oregon1 in 4,545
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 4,762
  8. 8Colorado1 in 5,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Evalyn around the world

Where Evalyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2025
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Evalyn

People whose public names include Evalyn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Evalyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,430
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 355
Best rank ever
#446
1918
Peak year
2014
331 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,567
Count in 2025
151

Names similar to Evalyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JoslynKaylynMarlynEvangelynJaelynKailynEvalynnKaelynRaelynJaylynCailynJazlynJailynOaklynKatlynRoslynJaslynAddilynCarlynEvaleeSherlynEmmalynEvannaBraelyn

Names with a curve like Evalyn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Evalyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VivienVadaZolaIsobelCordeliaAleenVioletteAdelaideEleanoraZoraEmelineLucie

Sibling names for Evalyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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