Evens
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈivənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Evens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Evans.
- USUnited States1 in 129K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 135K
- HTHaiti≈1 in 9.9K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,587 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Evans.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Evens 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,587 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Evens | 269 |
| BE Belgium | 1,176 | 1 in 10K | 1.2K | Evens | 59 |
| HT Haiti | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | listed | — | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Evens | 91 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Evens | 59 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | — |
2,587 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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)
Evens 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 Latvian, tautība, dzīvo Krievijā Tālo Austrumu taigas un mežatundras joslā, uz austrumiem no Ļenas lejteces, runā evenu valodā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, šīs tautības piederīgais
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Matthias Evensb. 1799DEpainter and Minorite father in Münster (1799-1843)
- Otto Evensb. 1826DKDanish sculptor (1826-1895)
- Rik Evensb. 1927BEBelgian bicycle racer
- Leonard Evensb. 1933USPh.D. Harvard University 1960
- Jerry Evenskyb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican academic (Syracuse University)
- Tom Evensb. 1983BEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7274-7432
- Brecht Evensb. 1986BEBelgian comics artist
- Lizzie Evenshistorian
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,055 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,399 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.2K | #1,014 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.2K | #1,090 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Evens mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Evans. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Evens?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈivənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Evens have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Evens, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled evens.
- How common is the name Evens?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,587 people named Evens in 2010, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/evensThe 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, “Evens”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.