Evlyn
Evlyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,309 among girls’ names; 959 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Evlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Evlyn?
#12,309 among girls’ names, 2025
Evlyn fell from #7,385 in 2015 to #12,309 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 4.4 per million.
36 babies in 1919, the peak
Evlyn peaked in 1919, when 36 girls were given it, #1,278 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,309 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,581 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,946 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,619 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,561 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,787 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,520 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,147 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,385 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,798 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 13 | #8,730 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,953 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,789 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,933 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,929 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,516 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,026 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,456 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,139 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,237 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,721 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,879 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,348 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,367 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,981 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,130 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,818 | 3.6 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,289 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,493 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,113 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,094 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,977 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,666 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,927 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,257 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,689 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,465 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,640 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,997 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,011 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,571 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,344 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,790 | 18.2 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,533 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,897 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,343 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,232 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,998 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,316 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,632 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,458 | 26.2 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,478 | 25.5 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,578 | 23.2 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,750 | 19.9 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,045 | 15.8 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,736 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,416 | 26.7 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,278 | 31.9 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,773 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,291 | 29.6 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,342 | 28.7 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,699 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,681 | 21.0 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,326 | 30.4 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,159 | 37.6 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,197 | 35.9 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,233 | 35.3 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,319 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,587 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,436 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,611 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,583 | 24.0 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,767 | 20.9 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,396 | 26.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Evlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Evlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Evlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Evlyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 296 Americans named Evlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 615 people named Evlyn (605 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
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 679,680 babies since 1880, Evlyn is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 10,544 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Evlyn
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 Evlyn and names like it
- Compare Evlyn and EvelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEvlyn peaked in 1919.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Evlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Evlyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Evlyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.