Evil
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Intending to harm; malevolent
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/eβil/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Evil is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Honduras than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 211K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 547K
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.
- Honduras (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Intending to harm; malevolent.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Evil 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Evil | 3 |
| US United States | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | listed | Evil | 21 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 547K | — | Evil | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 52 | Evil | 16 |
| PE Peru | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 796K | — | Evil | 10 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Evil | 4 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 572K | — | Evil | 1 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)Evil 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.
In English, and n., nyamu; evil spirit, nhgafa nyamu and nyina nyamu; evil thing, hinda nyamu; evil desires, mani nyamuisia
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In enm, alternative form of yvel (“evil”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In och, evil, wrong
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
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.
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 52 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 48 | #64,892 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 45 | #31,196 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Evil mean, and where does it come from?
- Intending to harm; malevolent. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Evil?
- A machine transcription gives /eβil/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Evil a male or female name?
- Evil is a male 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.
- In which country does Evil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 116 people named Evil in Honduras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled evil.
- How common is the name Evil?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 52 people named Evil in 2022, about 1 in 4.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Evil?
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/evilThe 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, “Evil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.