In 2025, 195 US girls were named Evangelina, making it the 1,187th most common girls’ name of the year, up 64 places from #1,251 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 186 girls named Evangelina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #718, reached in 1929. The most girls given the name in a single year was 219, in 2012. For comparison, it was #1,466 in 2015 and #843 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Evangelina in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 6 babies. In all, 10,319 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,719 babies named Evangelina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,582 US girls were named Evangelina; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 195. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Evangelina ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #530 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Evangeline (36,771 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Evangelena are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.