Evalyn is a vintage name, known since the late 19th century. It is a form of the English name Evelyn, which is based on the Old German name Avila. The meaning of this name is not known.
Evalyn is a first name for girls.
The name Evalyn isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Evalyn ranks 900. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Evalyn. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Evalyn.
Evalyn is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1988, where the name Evalyn was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Evalyn and were born in the USA in 1988 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Evalyn even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1918, it ranked on position 434 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Evalyn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Evalyn has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 198 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #1,100 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 198 girls named Evalyn, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Evalyn'.
You may not know anyone named Evalyn, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to women and girls named Evalyn. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Evalyn living in one state or another. If your name is Evalyn and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Evalyn relative to the population, you still have to ask 11,798 women and girls their names before you hear Evalyn as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Evalyn is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Evalyn and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Evalyn, you can simply say:
Elephant
Violin
Apple
Lion
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Evalyn
Evalyn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
V
A
L
Y
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
V
A
L
Y
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Evalyn sounds like this:
