Evelia
Evelia was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,853 among girls’ names; 1,594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Evelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 18 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Evelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Evelia?
#3,853 among girls’ names, 2025
Evelia rose from #7,745 in 2015 to #3,853 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 23.6 per million.
38 babies in 1980, the peak
Evelia peaked in 1980, when 38 girls were given it, #2,499 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,853 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,935 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,437 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,808 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,280 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,419 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,487 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,331 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,561 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,339 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,745 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,854 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,094 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,928 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,785 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,010 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,644 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,247 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,177 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,952 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,994 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,810 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,649 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,959 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,644 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,545 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,496 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,403 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,045 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,486 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,508 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,278 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,554 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,575 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,462 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,739 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,269 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,901 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,885 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,673 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,763 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,548 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,003 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,971 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,168 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,499 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,177 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,541 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,795 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,118 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,314 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,744 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,208 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,096 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,086 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,106 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,805 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,662 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,722 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,609 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,023 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,282 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,223 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,859 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,091 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,765 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,891 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,634 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,219 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,013 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,207 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,934 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,432 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,794 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,766 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,456 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,975 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,110 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,092 | 7.0 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,890 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,273 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,457 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,244 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,570 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,997 | 8.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,061 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,554 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,215 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,236 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,271 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,052 | 4.2 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,264 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,569 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,076 | 4.3 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,134 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Evelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Evelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Evelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Evelia, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,594 Americans ever recorded as Evelia. The median Evelia alive today is 35 years old; half are between 18 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 6,884 people named Evelia (6,870 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,326 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 18 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 158 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 287 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 308 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 293 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Evelia born?
The states with the most babies named Evelia are California, Texas and Illinois, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 574 | #3,260 | 3.1× |
| Texas | 145 | #3,049 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,111 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Evelia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Evelia is most over-represented in California: since 1912 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Evelia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,294 babies since 1880, Evelia is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 58 babies (66%), again the most given.
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 Evelia
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 Evelia and names like it
- Compare Evelia and EvelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEvelia peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Evelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Evelia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Evelia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.