Girl · #1427 in 2025

Evalyn

Evalyn: popularity and trends since 1880

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Evalyn per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1918. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Evalyn has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 49% of its 1918 peak.

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.