Evangelyn
#8,019 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Evangelyn has been given to 424 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #8,019 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 31 recorded.
Babies named Evangelyn, 2025
1 in 255,000
Evangelyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Evangelyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,019
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Evangelyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Evangelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Evangelyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Evangelyn was born before 2012 — so the typical Evangelyn is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 392
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (196).
Is Evangelyn 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
- +88
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,119
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,203
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.72×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 41.9%
- Peak was 2011 (31)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.9% average annual change
Spellings of Evangelyn
Evangelyn is not the most common spelling — Evangeline is, with 71.5% against Evangelyn's 0.82%.
- Evangeline71.5%36,771
- Evangelina20.1%10,319
- Angelyn5.3%2,737
- Evangelia2.3%1,174
- Evangelyn0.82%424
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 Evangelyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Evangelyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,020,699 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
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. Evangelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Evangelyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Evangelyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Evangelyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.