Highest ever

Evelynn

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#301
1,012 girls
2015
#441
rank
1950
#2,814
rank

Evelynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,012 in 2025. Its best rank was #301 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Evelynn in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#301 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
1,012
Since 1880
16,064
Years on record
111

Babies named Evelynn, every year since 1880

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Girls

Evelynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,012 girls in 2025. Peak: #301 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,030 (2019).

About the name Evelynn

In 2025, 1,012 US girls were named Evelynn, making it the 301st most common girls’ name of the year, up 3 places from #304 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 1,016 girls named Evelynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #301, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,030, in 2019. For comparison, it was #441 in 2015 and #2,814 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Evelynn in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 11 babies. In all, 16,064 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,212 babies named Evelynn.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,715 US girls were named Evelynn; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,030. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,588 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Evelynn ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #148 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), Evalyn (9,567 babies since 1880), Evelin (7,430 babies since 1880) and Evelyne (4,177 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Evalynne, Ivylynn and Ivalynn are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Evalynne (247), Ivylynn (164), Ivalynn (17).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Evelynn in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Evelynn by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Kentucky30#148#345
Kansas22#151#238
West Virginia10#159—
Missouri38#162#288
Utah26#173#380
Nebraska13#174#334
Ohio63#178#345
Montana6#180#151
Maine6#182—
Wisconsin30#182#192
New Mexico8#194#295
Oregon19#194#350
Michigan45#202#293
South Dakota6#203—
Idaho11#204#393
Indiana34#205#243
Iowa16#207#374
Washington34#213#278
Louisiana20#216#608
Tennessee33#240#523
South Carolina20#250#600
Oklahoma16#253#184
Minnesota21#266#240
Alabama18#271#862
Colorado21#290#327
Pennsylvania38#290#372
Illinois36#297#446
Texas107#319#445
Arizona22#323#443
Virginia21#385#419
Georgia29#389#747
Arkansas8#395#611
Connecticut7#418—
North Carolina24#456#576
Florida35#523#695
Nevada5#552#573
Massachusetts8#648#768
California48#649#524
New York23#709#1,164
Maryland5#882—
New Jersey5#1,236—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20251,012#301——
20241,016#304——
2023976#319——
2022963#333——
20211,025#317——
2020943#328——
20191,030#311——
2018957#337——
2017945#342——
2016848#390——
2015719#441——
2014737#435——
2013541#549——
2012530#557——
2011518#563——
2010387#725——
2009302#902——
2008247#1,060——
2007233#1,112——
2006209#1,163——
2005160#1,357——
2004122#1,604——
2003116#1,657——
2002119#1,566——
200171#2,269——
200057#2,604——
199950#2,756——
199831#3,756——
199732#3,569——
199625#4,226——
199527#3,915——
199418#5,315——
199325#4,140——
199221#4,737——
199121#4,701——
199021#4,566——
198918#4,923——
198814#5,689——
19879#7,554——
198613#5,533——
198516#4,698——
19849#6,976——
198311#5,932——
198215#4,775——
198115#4,801——
198011#6,035——
197910#6,334——
197811#5,672——
19767#7,539——
19755#9,511——
19749#5,898——
197312#4,644——
197213#4,366——
19717#6,813——
19706#7,343——
196910#4,808——
196812#4,067——
19676#6,259——
19667#5,431——
196511#4,025——
196414#3,569——
196316#3,225——
196210#4,351——
196112#3,843——
196012#3,767——
195917#2,899——
195817#2,895——
195716#2,968——
195622#2,410——
195513#3,270——
195418#2,619——
19538#4,344——
195210#3,627——
19519#3,796——
195014#2,814——
194918#2,360——
194815#2,630——
194719#2,304——
194616#2,420——
194512#2,643——
194423#1,765——
194315#2,372——
194220#1,928——
194113#2,440——
194012#2,465——
193912#2,461——
193811#2,635——
193710#2,799——
193610#2,736——
193516#2,028——
193419#1,789——
19339#2,958——
19328#3,385——
193115#2,136——
193012#2,587——
192910#2,995——
192818#2,042——
192716#2,285——
192612#2,771——
192521#1,914——
192423#1,829——
192329#1,534——
192218#2,140——
192119#2,071——
192021#1,909——
191911#2,871——
191815#2,312——
191715#2,235——
191610#2,902——
191511#2,589——
191411#2,171——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).