Evelina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eβelina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Evelina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.4Kas Eveline(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.6Kas Eveline
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 2.8Kas Eveline
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Evelina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- 1 in 377 (inferred from the name graph)
19,227 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eveline in SE Sweden, DE Germany, BR Brazil and 3 more and Evelīna in LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latinate form of the girl’s name jEvelyn, or combination of Eve with the suffix -lina.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Evelina is read(measured from records)
Evelina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish37%
prob. germánico; forma hipocorística de Avelina/Avi, interpretado como «agradable, grata»
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English20%
A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swedish6.5%
Evelina är en latiniserad form av → Evelyn. Det kan också vara en utvidgad form av → Eva. I den rikssvenska almanackan 12 februari och i den finlandssvenska 24 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Ukrainian6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Evelina in Ukrainian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Evelina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Evelina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 19,227 | 1 in 531 | 19K | Eveline | 34 |
| DE Germany | #745 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Eveline | 140 |
| MD Moldova | #368 | 8,919 | 1 in 377 | 8.9K | Evelina | 25 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,468as Eveline | 1 in 25K | 9.4K | Eveline | 118 |
| NL Netherlands | #370 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 7.9K | Eveline | 103 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,777 | 1 in 498 | 3.8K | Evelīna | 17 |
| AT Austria | #350 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 351 | Eveline | 75 |
| CH Switzerland | #227 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Eveline | 82 |
19,227 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling evelina. 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Evelina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Latinate form of the girl’s name jEvelyn, or combination of Eve with the suffix -lina.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Dérivé d’Ève ou d’Evelyn; sens lié à la vie, ou forme anglo-normande.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Variante de Éva/Eve; forme féminine apparentée à Eveline.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Evelyn Grace Inceb. 1886INnot in their usual nameBritish painter (1886–1941)
- Richard E. Byrdb. 1888USnot in their usual nameAmerican naval officer, explorer (1888-1957)
- Evelyn Waughb. 1903GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer and journalist (1903–1966)
- Estée Lauderb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican businesswoman (1906–2004)
- Evelyn Keyesb. 1916USnot in their usual nameAmerican film actress (1916-2008)
- Margot Fonteynb. 1919GBnot in their usual nameBritish ballerina
- Richard Vernonb. 1925GBnot in their usual namefilm, television actor (1925-1997)
- Evelyn Ashfordb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican sprinter
- Angela Bassettb. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Carolina Klüftb. 1983SEnot in their usual nameSwedish heptathlete and long jumper
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 88 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19K | #226 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 9.6K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 8.9K | #114 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.1K | #8,418 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.1K | #1,982 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 897 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 895 | #8,904 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 334 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 330 | #715 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 106 | #429 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 20 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 11 | #436 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Evelina?
- A machine transcription gives /eβelina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Evelina come from?
- Latinate form of the girl’s name jEvelyn, or combination of Eve with the suffix -lina. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Evelina?
- In the etymology graph, Eileen, Aline and Aileen are forms of the same name in other languages; Lina is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Evelina mean?
- In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.
- In which country does Evelina have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Evelina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eveline.
- Where is Evelina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Evelina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 377 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- Is Evelina a male or female name?
- Evelina 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 Evelina?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 19,227 people named Evelina, about 1 in 531 residents.
- How common is Evelina compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Evelina is the 227th most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/evelinaThe 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, “Evelina” — the 227th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.