girls:
98 births since 1921
#5618 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5.2k births since 1880
#1658 (64th percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1880
#3750 (52nd percentile)
The name Evans is the #3,750 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,311 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 51.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,658 (63.8% percentile) for all time with 5,213 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,618 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 1921.
Evans has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls). Birth data for Evans is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 13 years for girls). 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.
The name Evans has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 80.2% of babies named Evans were boys.
For boys, Evans reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 15.2% percentile (ranked #426) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 155 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Despite a peak around 2017, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Evans ranks #851 for boys (6.6% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 22.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Evans reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #936) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Evans is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #936 (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Evans".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Evans. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Evans is pronounced as EH-vuhnz, which has 2 syllables.
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