girls:
398 births since 1920
#5318 (7th percentile)
overall:
398 births since 1920
#7341 (5th percentile)
The name Evangelyn is the #7,341 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 398 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,318 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 398 births since 1920.
Evangelyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (first recorded for girls in 1920). Birth data for Evangelyn is available in 32 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Evangelyn reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #914) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Evangelyn ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 75.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Evangelyn".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Evangelyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.6% confident that Evangelyn is pronounced as ee-VAN-juh-lihn, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-VAN-juh-lihn, at 28.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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