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Evelyn
Rank in 2024
#8
Born in 2024
9,116
Peak year
1921 · #12
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:6 in 2024 (#11,883)
1880 to 2024
Vintage revivalIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 9,116 girls were named Evelyn, about 1 in every 177.
- It peaked in 1921 with 14,278 babies, ranked #12.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 630,574 girls have been named Evelyn since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Evelyn per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 10.4Greatest1901–27
- 5.7Silent1928–45
- 2.0Boomers1946–64
- 0.8Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 2.3Gen Z1997–12
- 5.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 212,726 babies, 10.39 per 1,000. Silent: 118,438 babies, 5.73 per 1,000. Boomers: 71,799 babies, 2.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 19,529 babies, 0.76 per 1,000. Millennials: 20,001 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Gen Z: 65,403 babies, 2.25 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 114,097 babies, 5.62 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English forms of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root *avi-, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“ (compare Latin avēre, "to wish for") or aval “strength”. By folk etymology also misunderstood as a diminutive of the feminine given name Eve, q.v. Doublet of Eileen. Also compare Ava.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Evelyn, CC BY-SA 4.0.