Evalena
Evalena was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,522 among girls’ names; 1,378 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Evalena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Evalena?
#8,522 among girls’ names, 2025
Evalena fell from #7,744 in 2015 to #8,522 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 7.5 per million.
41 babies in 1921, the peak
Evalena peaked in 1921, when 41 girls were given it, #1,209 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,522 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,029 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,631 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,697 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,778 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,722 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,507 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,093 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,950 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,010 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,744 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,528 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,367 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,272 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,927 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,669 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,185 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,024 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,060 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,121 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,176 | 4.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,126 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,696 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,595 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,479 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,435 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,366 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,471 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,256 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,618 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,009 | 4.9 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,124 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,812 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,718 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,822 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,508 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,678 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,804 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,120 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,184 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,664 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,745 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,703 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,905 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,806 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,820 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,666 | 19.9 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,592 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,971 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,946 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,788 | 18.2 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,311 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,889 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,821 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,894 | 16.9 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,570 | 22.4 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,692 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,781 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,790 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,912 | 17.3 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,944 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,749 | 19.9 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,654 | 21.6 |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,209 | 33.3 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,414 | 26.7 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,765 | 19.5 |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,391 | 26.8 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,520 | 23.1 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,706 | 20.1 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,418 | 26.4 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,766 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,073 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,756 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,486 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,364 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,173 | 37.4 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,057 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,163 | 37.7 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,181 | 37.3 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,259 | 34.3 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,543 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,366 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,159 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,031 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,129 | 40.0 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,130 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 14 | #935 | 54.1 |
| 1897 | 13 | #907 | 55.5 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,070 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,078 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,018 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,214 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 10 | #979 | 47.1 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,038 | 43.1 |
| 1890 | 10 | #886 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 8 | #975 | 44.9 |
| 1888 | 8 | #981 | 44.8 |
| 1887 | 13 | #644 | 89.1 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,015 | 41.5 |
| 1883 | 8 | #718 | 71.2 |
| 1882 | 6 | #844 | 55.6 |
| 1881 | 5 | #866 | 54.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #779 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Evalena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Evalena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Evalena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Evalena, and how old are they?
An estimated 466 Americans named Evalena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 484 people named Evalena (483 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 462 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,259 babies since 1880, Evalena is the fourth most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 644 babies (1.9%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Evalena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Evalena and names like it
- Compare Evalena and EvelinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEvalena peaked in 1921.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Evalena since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Evalena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Evalena alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.