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The first name 
Evans

Evans is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

When two boys called Evans meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Evans is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Evans. In the SmartGenius ranking, Evans is #2,366 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Evans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Evans

Evans -
quite rare in all states

The odds of having a man or boy named Evans in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Evans is registered in 18 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Evans live in South Carolina, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 12,525 men and boys in South Carolina for their name before you meet one who answers with Evans.

Evans has 5 letters 
and begins with an E

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 boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With five letters, the name Evans is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.

Other names with 
E, v, a, n and s

If you take all the letters in the name Evans – E, v, a, n and s – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Saven or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Evans

If your name is Evans 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...

This is how you spell the name Evans

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Evans, you can simply say:

Elephant

Violin

Apple

Nut

Sun

This is how the name Evans is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Evans in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Evans

Evans

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Evans

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Evans is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
V
A
N
S

Have you ever waved the name Evans

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
N
S

Beeping like crazy...

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. Evans sounds like this: