Evelyn is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The first name Evelyn is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #12 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Evelyn, accounting for approximately 0.60 % of all newborn girls. In total, there are currently 581,914 people – children, adults and seniors – named Evelyn living in the United States, which is approximately 0.17 % of the entire population.
The first name Evelyn is said to be rooted in the name Aveline or Evelina and from there again in the name Ava. A derivation from the Old Saxon ‘aval’ for ‘strength’ is possible. Also under discussion is the meaning ‘small bird’ via the Latin ‘avis’.
By the way… the name was originally used as a surname.
Evelyn Preer (1896 - 1932)
This pioneering African-American actress was a multi-talent: she acted both on screen and on the stage and sang blues and jazz. As the first Black actress to achieve overreaching celebrity and popularity especially within the Black community she was involved in many groundbreaking productions of her time: the first play by a Black playwright on Broadway or the first New York-style production with an all-Black cast in 1928. Her popularity within the Black community earned her the nickname The First Lady of the Screen.
Evelyn Ashford (*1957)
Evelyn Ashford is a retired American track and field athlete and an Olympic. Born in Louisiana, U.S., she partook in her first Olympic Games in 1976 at only 19 years of age and finished 5th in the 100m event. After beating several world records in 1980 she had another chance at Olympic gold in 1984 and won. Overall, she won Olympic gold 4 times in her career one of only 6 women overall to achieve this feat. Ashford is inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1997.
Evelyn Ng (*1975)
Born in Toronto, Canada, she was only 14, when she started her gaming career first by playing pool for money and later expanding to dealing blackjack and poker games. Evelyn Ng achieved world wide fame in 2003 when she placed second in the World Poker Tour (WPT), ahead of other known professionals such as Annie Duke, Kathy Liebert and Jennifer Harman. Since then, Ng has participated in several reality tv-shows: Stacked with Daniel Negreanu (2006) or Criss Angel Mindfreak (2005 2010).
Evelyn Vida Baxter (1879 - 1959)
Evelyn Vida Baxter was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist. As the first woman ever, she received the Union Medal of the British Ornithological Union in 1959 shortly before her death. Baxter was especially interested in bird migration and, together with her life-long companion Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, she took up bird watching at the Isle of May from 1905 forward. E. V. Baxter was one of four co-founders of the Scottish Ornithologists Club in 1936. She co-wrote several books with Rintould, for example: The Birds of the Isle of May (1918) or Birds of Scotland (1953).
When you hear the name Evelyn, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Evelyn? Are you also called Evelyn? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
(503) Evelyn is an asteroid of the main belt discovered in 1903 by Raymond Smith Dugan. The asteroid was named after the mother of the discoverer.
The rose cultivar Evelyn, syn. 'Aussaucer' is an English rose introduced by David Austin in 1991. It is a descendant of the roses 'Graham Thomas' & 'Tamora'.
is a lake in the Selwyn District of the Canterbury Region on the South Island of New Zealand.
there are several places with the name Evelyn, for example in Georgia, Michigan und Florida.
History tends to focus on the most famous and best. But even those who play second fiddle leave their mark: Evelyn is one of those names without which the orchestra would be incomplete. In fact, it has reached the SmartGenius top ranking #9 more than once. It wasn't that long ago, the last was in 2022, but even if the peak of popularity happened not that long ago, the name Evelyn has been given to newborn girls every year since records began. Evelyn is a name of exceptional enduring popularity, bringing the special spirit of the 20th century into the 21st.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Evelyn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The peak of popularity of the traditional name Evelyn is only a short while ago: the name has definitely arrived in the 21st century. Evelyn made it into the top ten more than once, in 2022 it ranked #9 in our statistics: the chances of meeting a Evelyn are pretty high these days. Traditional names often turn out to be perennial favorites – so, who knows, perhaps Evelyn will eventually become one of the most popular girls' names of all time.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Evelyn is one of them. However, Evelyn is not equally widespread in all states, but people in North Dakota seem to particularly fancy this name – the 3,214 women called Evelyn who live here are 0,616% of all female residents and push their name up to #22, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in North Dakota.
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 Evelyn 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 Evelyn 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 Evelyn, you can simply say:
Elephant
Violin
Elephant
Lion
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Evelyn
Evelyn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Evelyn sounds like this:
