Evalyn — #1353 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Evalyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,415 babies named Evalyn between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Evalyn currently holds the #1353 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 331 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Evalyn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,798 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Evalyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 710 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Evalyn in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Evalyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,415 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.