Evan
Evan places #153 across the country in 2025, past its crest and settling. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 287,701 American bearers across the record.
What Evan carries
Evan · Celtic
“young warrior”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Evan’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Evan, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Evan since 1880
Evan peaked in 2007 at #40; #153 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Evan is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Evan runs strongest in Alaska at 0.31% in 2025, then California and Maryland.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Evan
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Owen
#31 in 2025 · Celtic
Finn
#206 in 2025 · Celtic
Elliot
#151 in 2025
Elliott
#160 in 2025
Emmett
#121 in 2025
Rory
#199 in 2025 · Celtic
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About Evan
Where does Evan rank right now?
Evan places #153 across the country in 2025, past its crest and settling. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Evan?
The reference we cite records “young warrior”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Evan?
The recipe puts Connor first, then Owen, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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