Evangelist
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɪvændʒəlɪst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Evangelist is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 899K
- GHGhana≈1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Evangelist counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Evangelist | 28 |
| GH Ghana | #684 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Evangelist | 9 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Evangelist | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Evangelist | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 899K | 480 | Evangelist | 159 |
| GY Guyana | — | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | Evangelist | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Evangelist is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, an evangelist, an author of one of the gospels
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, evangelist; a preacher of the gospel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Evangelist Schreiberb. 1716CHSwiss composer
- Johann Evangelist Brandlb. 1760DEGerman composer
- Johannes Evangelist Drahanekb. 1800ATAustrian kapellmeister and composer
- János Zádorib. 1831HUnot in their usual nameecclesiastical writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 4 | #590 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Evangelist mean, and where does it come from?
- An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Evangelist?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪvændʒəlɪst/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Evangelist a male or female name?
- Evangelist is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Evangelist?
- In the etymology graph, Angel, Angelic and Evangel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Evangelist have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Evangelist in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled evangelist.
- How common is the name Evangelist?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 4 people named Evangelist in 2025, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
- How common is Evangelist compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Evangelist is the 684th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/evangelistThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Evangelist” — the 684th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.