Evangeline
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek; 'bearer of good news'; related to the evangelist
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪˈvændʒɪˌɫaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Evangeline is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 710(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 6.8K
- USUnited States1 in 14K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 372 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 710 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek; 'bearer of good news'; related to the evangelist.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Evangeline 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #93 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 710 | — | Evangeline | 125 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Evangeline | 51 |
| US United States | — | 23,505 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Evangeline | 372 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Evangeline | 42 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Evangeline | 28 |
| SG Singapore | #920 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Evangeline | 56 |
| PA Panama | #755 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Evangeline | 13 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Evangeline is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Fanciful name derived from Latin evangelium ‘gospel’ (Greek euangelion, from eu ‘good’ + angelma ‘tidings’) + the suffix -ine (in origin a French feminine diminutive). Evangeline is the title of a narrative poem (1848) by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in which the central character is called Evangeline Bellefontaine.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name originating as a coinage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Origine grecque, « bonne nouvelle »; lié à l’Évangile.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
English: fanciful name derived from Latin evangelium gospel (Greek euangelion , from eu well, good + angelma tidings) + the suffix (in origin a French feminine diminutive) - ine . Evangeline is the title of a narrative poem (1848) by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in which the central character is called Evangeline Belle-fontaine.
as a word
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)
- Evangeline Boothb. 1865USGeneral of the Salvation Army (1865–1950)
- Evangeline Waltonb. 1907USAmerican writer (1907–1996)
- June Havocb. 1912CAnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, vaudeville performer, and memoirist
- Eva Macapagalb. 1915PHnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the Philippines (1915-1999)
- Evangelina Elizondob. 1929MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress (1929-2017)
- Astrud Gilbertob. 1940BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian-American singer and songwriter (1940–2023)
- Evangelina Salazarb. 1946ARnot in their usual nameArgentine actress
- Ceciliab. 1948ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer-songwriter (1948-1976)
- Cherie Gilb. 1963PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actress (1963–2022)
- Evangeline Lillyb. 1979CACanadian actress (born 1979)
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 71 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,443 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #1,443 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Evangeline?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪˈvændʒɪˌɫaɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Evangeline mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek; 'bearer of good news'; related to the evangelist. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Evangeline?
- In the etymology graph, Evangelina, Evi and Evangelia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Evangeline a male or female name?
- Evangeline is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Evangeline?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,505 people named Evangeline in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Evangeline compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Evangeline is the 93rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Evangeline have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 154 thousand people named Evangeline in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled evangeline.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/evangelineThe 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, “Evangeline” — the 93rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.