In 2025, 349 US girls were named Evelina, making it the 778th most common girls’ name of the year, up 249 places from #1,027 in 2024. That is 104 more than the 245 girls named Evelina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #528, reached in 1887. The most girls given the name in a single year was 349, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,358 in 2015 and #1,658 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Evelina in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 6,365 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,577 babies named Evelina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,159 US girls were named Evelina; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 349. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,605 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Evelina ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #331 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Evelyn (641,662 babies since 1880), Evelyne (4,177 babies since 1880), Eveline (3,341 babies since 1880) and Avelina (1,804 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Evalena, Evelena and Evelyna are summarised on this page.
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