Evalena vs Evangeline
American parents have registered 36,771 Evangelines since 1880, against 1,378 Evalenas. Evangeline is still ahead, with 1,998 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Evalena Evangeline
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Evangeline for 144 years and Evalena for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
- 1880 Evalena ahead
- 1881–1882 Evangeline ahead
- 1883 Evalena ahead
- 1884–2025 Evangeline ahead
Side by side
| Evalena | Evangeline | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,378 | 36,771 |
| Most in one year | 41 | 1,998 |
| Babies in 2025 | 12 | 1,998 |
| Estimated living today | 480 | 29,000 |
| Median age today | 15 | 10 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 1,205th girls | 147th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,362nd | 147th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 1,378 / 0 | 36,771 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Evalenas alive today are over 15; half the Evangelines are over 10. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Evalena and Evangeline.