Evalyn

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Evalyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 168 births. Its best rank was 446th, in 1918.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1680.01% of girls
Peak year: 2014331 births
Best rank: #446in 1918
Since 1880: 9,415people given the name

Babies named Evalyn, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

9,415 girls have been named Evalyn in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 331 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2010s alone account for 30%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Evalyn
1880s	115
1890s	235
1900s	316
1910s	1,332
1920s	1,170
1930s	532
1940s	390
1950s	259
1960s	124
1970s	43
1980s	46
1990s	142
2000s	912
2010s	2,798
2020s	1,001

In 2014, its biggest year

Evalyn was the 836th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Evalyn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Evalynn3,498 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.