Evalyn
Evalyn is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Evalyn France, the first woman president of a national bank Evalyn Knapp (1906–1981), American film actress Evalyn Parry, Canadian Quaker singer/songwriter and actress/playwright who grew up in Toronto, Ontario Evalyn Thomas (1861–1950), American arts educator Evalyn Walsh McLean (1886–1947), American mining heiress and socialite, the…
- English
Meaning & Origin of Evalyn
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Evalyn is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Evalyn France, the first woman president of a national bank Evalyn Knapp (1906–1981), American film actress Evalyn Parry, Canadian Quaker singer/songwriter and actress/playwright who grew up in Toronto, Ontario Evalyn Thomas (1861–1950), American arts educator Evalyn Walsh McLean (1886–1947), American mining heiress and socialite, the…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Evalyn
Evalyn first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1880, with 8 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2014: 331 births, good for #836 nationwide. About 29% of every Evalyn on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Evalyn ranks #1,370 for baby girls with 164 births, falling sharply (-26%). All told, over 10K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Evalyn
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Names that sound like Evalyn
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About the name Evalyn
Evalyn is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1880 and has accumulated 10K births in the dataset. Evalyn's peak popularity came in 2014 when it ranked #446. Use the chart and map above to compare Evalyn's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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