girls:
621.4k births since 1880
#42 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1900
#2874 (37th percentile)
overall:
623.3k births since 1880
#93 (99th percentile)
The name Evelyn is the #93 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 623,279 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #42 (99.3% percentile) for all time with 621,387 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,874 (37.3% percentile) for all time with 1,892 births since 1900.
Evelyn has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1900 for boys).
The name Evelyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Evelyn reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 99.2% percentile (ranked #9) with 5,201 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 11,341 births per million (ranked 98.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Evelyn ranks #9 for girls (99.2% percentile) with 5,192 births per million, which is 45.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Evelyn reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #480) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 76 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Evelyn ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 5.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Evelyn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Evelyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Evelyn is pronounced as EH-vuh-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-vuh-luhn, at 14.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
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