Ewelina

Girls' name

Form of Evelina

Ewelina has been given to 126 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Ewelina, 2018

1 in 440,000

Ewelina over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ewelina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Evelina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ewelina means

Ewelina is a form of Evelina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ewelina is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˌɛ.vɛ.ˈli.na/ for Ewelina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ewelina → Evelina → Evelyn → Eve → Eva → Εὔᾱ → חַוָּה. The family’s proposed meaning is “to live”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements ḥyw.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Evelina and Eveline.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Ewelina is pronounced /ɛ.vɛˈli.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 126 girls were recorded with the name Ewelina between 1987 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2003; its best national rank was #8,547 in 1997.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ewelina?

Ewelina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 440,000
8 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
304,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ewelina 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 2018 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 304,713 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ewelina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ewelinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ewelina was born before 2001 — so the typical Ewelina is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
126
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Ewelina 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (11)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,547
1997

Spellings of Ewelina

Ewelina is not the most common spelling — Melina is, with 15.6% against Ewelina's 0.10%.

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 Ewelina is used

Across 1910–2025, Ewelina was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 203,847 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Ewelina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ewelina around the world

Where Ewelina 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
    2008–2019
    #4,686
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    2009–2009
    #783
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    2007–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    2004–2016
    #6,757
    in 2016
  • Norway
    1880–2021
    #460
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1984–1984
    #661
    in 1984

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

Ewelina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,547
1997
Peak year
2003
11 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ewelina

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

Sibling names for Ewelina

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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