Evelynn
Evelynn was given to 1,012 girls in 2025, #301 among girls’ names; 16,064 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,500 Americans named Evelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Evelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Evelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Evelynn is “a female given name.”
A rare non-standard spelling of Evelyn with -lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Evelynn?
#301 among girls’ names, 2025
Evelynn rose from #441 in 2015 to #301 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.40 to 0.63 per 1,000.
1,030 babies in 2019, the peak
Evelynn peaked in 2019, when 1,030 girls were given it, #311 among girls’ names. The 1,012 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,012 | #301 | 0.63 |
| 2024 | 1,016 | #304 | 0.63 |
| 2023 | 976 | #319 | 0.61 |
| 2022 | 963 | #333 | 0.59 |
| 2021 | 1,025 | #317 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 943 | #328 | 0.58 |
| 2019 | 1,030 | #311 | 0.61 |
| 2018 | 957 | #337 | 0.56 |
| 2017 | 945 | #342 | 0.55 |
| 2016 | 848 | #390 | 0.48 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 719 | #441 | 0.40 |
| 2014 | 737 | #435 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 541 | #549 | 0.31 |
| 2012 | 530 | #557 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 518 | #563 | 0.29 |
| 2010 | 387 | #725 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 302 | #902 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 247 | #1,060 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 233 | #1,112 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 209 | #1,163 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 160 | #1,357 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,603 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,656 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,565 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,265 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,600 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,753 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,753 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,566 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,221 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,910 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,310 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,135 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,731 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,695 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,561 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,917 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,684 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,549 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,530 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,696 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,974 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,930 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,773 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,800 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,034 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,333 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,671 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,897 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,642 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,365 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,811 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,807 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,430 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,024 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,568 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,224 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,350 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,842 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,766 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,898 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,894 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,409 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,269 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,618 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,626 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,813 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,359 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,629 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,303 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,419 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,642 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,764 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,927 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,735 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,957 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,383 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,994 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,284 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,534 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,071 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,909 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,311 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,234 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,900 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,171 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Evelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Evelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Evelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Evelynn, and how old are they?
15,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 16,064 Americans ever recorded as Evelynn. The median Evelynn alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 8,790 people named Evelynn (8,777 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,906 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 76 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 213 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 127 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 271 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,600 |
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 Evelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Evelynn are Texas, Ohio and California, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 107 | #319 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 63 | #178 | 1.3× |
| California | 48 | #649 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 45 | #202 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | #290 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 38 | #162 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 36 | #297 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 35 | #523 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 34 | #213 | 1.5× |
| Indiana | 34 | #205 | 1.4× |
Where Evelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Evelynn is most over-represented in Idaho: since 1914 it was given 1.8 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 Evelynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Evelynn?
Evelynn is a less common spelling of Evelyn: SSA has recorded 16,064 Evelynn and 641,662 Evelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 679,890 babies since 1880, Evelynn is the second most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,012 of their 10,544 babies (9.6%), again the second 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 Evelynn
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 Evelynn and names like it
- Compare Evelynn and EvelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEvelynn peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Evelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Evelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Evelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.