as a First Name
Modern use of this as both a boy's and a girl's name derives from a transferred use of an English surname, from the Norman female name Aveline, an elaborated form of Ava. At present it is used more frequently as a girl's name, and is also found as a variant Anglicization of Irish Éibhleann or Aibhilín (see also Evlin).
| 186th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 321,859
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 471,466
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Evelyn per capita
- 1910
- marked the height of its popularity
99.94%
0.06%
55%
55+
55+
16%
30-54
30-54
6%
13-29
13-29
23%
0-12
0-12
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