How rare is the name Evalyn?

4,812 people in the United States have the first name Evalyn, about 1 in 62,766. It ranks #4,030 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EVALYN

#4,030

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,812
About
1 in 62,766
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,812 people named Evalyn, 64.9% reported their origin as White, 22% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Evalyn peaked in 2014, when 331 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2014
Births that year
331
In 2025*
151 ▼54%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,567 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Evalyn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #916. The largest share of babies named Evalyn, 33.3%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#1,172115
1890s#974235
1900s#1,004316
1910s#9161,332
1920s#1,2361,170
1930s#1,772532
1940s#2,355390
1950s#3,435259
1960s#5,730124
1970s#12,77843
1980s#15,16746
1990s#10,262142
2000s#3,558912
2010s#1,7592,799
2020s#2,2941,152
Before 19014.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2727.7%
Silent Generation 1928–459.6%
Baby boom 1946–644.9%
Generation X 1965–801.1%
Millennials 1981–961.3%
Generation Z 1997–1218.2%
2013 and later33.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Evalyn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Evalyn has been most common in Utah (2.6×), Iowa (2.3×), and Washington (2.2×), and least common in New Jersey (0.26×).

5,430 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Evalyn

#4,028 Lelia · 4,819#4,029 Nannette · 4,813#4,031 Cedrick · 4,810#4,031 Menachem · 4,810

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Evalyn, most common first.

#176 Evelyn · 293,621#7,103 Evalynn · 2,178#17,761 Evlyn · 615#32,621 Evalin · 257#41,955 Evilyn · 173#44,359 Evalyne · 156

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