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Evander

#698 in 2025Boys' name

Good man

Evander has been given to 4,200 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #698 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 389 recorded.

Babies named Evander, 2025

1 in 8,520

Evander over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Evander: meaning, origin, and history

Good man

Ancient Greek

What Evander means

Evander means “good man”, associated with Eúandros.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Euander, from Ancient Greek Εὔανδρος (Eúandros, literally “good man”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Evander is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Evander comes through Latin Euander and Ancient Greek Εὔανδρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Evander is pronounced /ɪˈvændɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,200 boys were recorded with the name Evander between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 389 in 2025; its best national rank was #698 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,047 in 2020 to #698 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,619 in 2015 to #698 in 2025.

How common is Evander?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,520
389 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,390
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#698
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,908 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Evander sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,908 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Evander. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Evanders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Evander was born before 2018 — so the typical Evander is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,926
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (1,870).

Is Evander 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
+70
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+349
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+921
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.93×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (389)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#698
2025

Spellings of Evander

Evander is not the most common spelling — Xander is, with 43.9% against Evander's 4.6%.

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 Evander is used

Across 2016–2025, Evander was most concentrated in Alaska — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 7,037 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in 50,000).

226 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alaska1 in 3,846
  2. 2Missouri1 in 4,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 4,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 4,348
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 4,545
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 4,545
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 5,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 5,263

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Evander is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 26% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Evander around the world

Where Evander 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
    1996–2025
    #1,007
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2013
    #6,723
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Evander

People whose public names include Evander, 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.

Evander by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#698
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 349
Best rank ever
#698
2025
Peak year
2025
389 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,200
Count in 2025
389

Names similar to Evander

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

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Names with a curve like Evander

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

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Sibling names for Evander

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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