Evelyn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Evelyn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 52nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: from the medieval female personal name Aveline, ultimately of Germanic origin, from Avo, perhaps meaning literally 'wished for'.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 371(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 952
- USUnited States1 in 1.1K
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 Evelyn 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #404 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 556 (measured from records)
- 1 in 336 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Evelyne in FR France and Evëlyn in EC Ecuador.
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)
from the medieval female personal name Aveline, ultimately of Germanic origin, from Avo, perhaps meaning literally 'wished for'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Evelyn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Evelyn | 38 |
| PH Philippines | #52 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 371 | — | Evelyn | 139 |
| US United States | #203 | 293,621 | 1 in 1.1K | 293K | Evelyn | 556 |
| NG Nigeria | #278 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Evelyn | 94 |
| FR France | #199 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 128K | Evelyne | 334 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 50,376 | 1 in 336 | 50K | Evëlyn | 51 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8,751 | 1 in 583 | 8.8K | — | 5 |
| SG Singapore | #98 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 952 | — | Evelyn | 131 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Evelyn is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, English; from an old surname, later also related to Eve.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, Germanic name, occasionally used in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, the element avi, perhaps meaning ‘desired, wished for’. Vars.: Aveline, Aveling. Metr.: Du.: Eveleens. The diarist John Evelyn (1620-1706) claimed to come of a family of Norman origin who had settled in Shrops. However, his earliest recorded ancestor was William Avelyn or Evelyn (d. 1476), who lived at Harrow, Middlesex.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
,° 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. It is also found as a variant Anglicization of Irish Eibhleann (see pEvlin). Variants: Evelyne, Eveline (9).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.
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)
- Evelyn Grace Inceb. 1886INBritish painter (1886–1941)
- Richard E. Byrdb. 1888USnot in their usual nameAmerican naval officer, explorer (1888-1957)
- Evelyn Waughb. 1903GBBritish writer and journalist (1903–1966)
- Estée Lauderb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican businesswoman (1906–2004)
- Evelyn Keyesb. 1916USAmerican 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. 1957USAmerican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 126 sources across 68 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 293K | #176 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 50K | #28 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9.1K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 8.8K | #72 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 444 | #176 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 250 | #2,000 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 153 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Is Evelyn a male or female name?
- Evelyn 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.
- What does the name Evelyn mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval female personal name Aveline, ultimately of Germanic origin, from Avo, perhaps meaning literally 'wished for'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Evelyn?
- In the etymology graph, Eileen, Ava and Eveline are forms of the same name in other languages; Evie and Evvie are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Evelyn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 293,621 people named Evelyn in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Evelyn compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Evelyn is the 52nd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Evelyn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Evelyn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled evelyn.
- Where is Evelyn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Evelyn is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 336 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Evelyn?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/evelynThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Evelyn” — the 52nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.