first name
EVANGELINA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 16,121 people named Evangelina, 88.9% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 6.1% as White and 3.2% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Evangelina peaked in 2012, when 219 babies got the name.
At least 10,319 babies have been given the name since 1908. 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.
Evangelina by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #1,483. The largest share of babies named Evangelina, 21.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Evangelina is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Evangelina has been most common in Texas (6.1×), California (3.4×), and Arizona (2.9×), and least common in Ohio (0.09×).
7,904 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Evangelina, most common first.
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