Evangelina — #1261 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Evangelina

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,121 babies named Evangelina between 1908 and 2024, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Evangelina currently holds the #1261 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 219 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Evangelina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,718 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Evangelina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,716 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Evangelina in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Evangelina 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 10,121 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.