Evëlyn

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Evëlyn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 50th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Medieval English form of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root avi, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“, or aval “strength”.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 583(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1K
  • BRBrazil1 in 3.3K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

293,621 people, 2020

Sources
450 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 336 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Evelyn in US United States, BR Brazil, EC Ecuador and 2 more.

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)

Medieval English form of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root avi, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“, or aval “strength”. By folk etymology the name Eve is seen as a diminutive of the female given name. Doublet of Eileen.

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Evëlyn 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.

Where Evëlyn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—293,6211 in 1.1K293KEvelyn450
BR Brazil#50763,9281 in 3.3K64KEvelyn173
EC Ecuador—50,3761 in 33650KEvelyn74
CR Costa Rica#508,7511 in 5838.8KEvelyn79
ES Spain—4,5631 in 11K4.6KEvelyn129
NO Norway—1,9511 in 2.8K6.4K—17
GY Guyana—4011 in 1.9K401——

293,621 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Evëlyn is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name129 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, French, German

    Also written Evelyn, Evelyne, אבלין, אוולין, Évelyne

  • a separate given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Evelyn, Évelyn, E̶v̶e̶l̶y̶n̶, Evélyn

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Evëlyn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Evëlyn mean, and where does it come from?
Medieval English form of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root avi, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“, or aval “strength”. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
Is Evëlyn a male or female name?
Evëlyn 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.
In which country does Evëlyn have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 294 thousand people named Evëlyn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled evelyn.
Where is Evëlyn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Evëlyn is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 336 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Evëlyn?
In the United States, the national register counted 293,621 people named Evëlyn in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Evëlyn compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Evëlyn is the 50th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.

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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, “Evëlyn” — the 50th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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