Evangeline
The 2025 national count puts Evangeline at #147, and rising year over year. An old entry (1881) having its biggest moment now, with 36,771 American bearers across the record.
What Evangeline carries
Evangeline · Greek
“happy messenger”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Evangeline’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Evangeline, 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.
Evangeline since 1881
Evangeline is at its all-time peak right now: #147 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Evangeline is most common
The state that gives Evangeline most often, per girls born there, is Alaska (0.42% in 2025); Idaho and Hawaii are close behind.
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 Evangeline
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Elena
#42 in 2025 · Greek
Anastasia
#163 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Catalina
#111 in 2025 · Greek
Damian
#109 in 2025 · Greek
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
Myles
#100 in 2025 · Greek
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About Evangeline
How common is Evangeline today?
The 2025 national count puts Evangeline at #147, and rising year over year. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1881.
What does Evangeline mean?
The gloss on record reads “happy messenger”, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Evangeline?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Elena, Anastasia and Milo, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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