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Evaluna vs Evangelina

American parents have registered 10,319 Evangelinas since 1880, against 930 Evalunas. Evangelina is still ahead, with 195 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Evaluna against Evangelina, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Evaluna Evangelina

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 116 years in which either name was published, Evangelina for 115 years and Evaluna for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Evaluna Evangelina
Total US births 93010,319
Most in one year 175219
Babies in 2025 119195
Estimated living today 9308,400
Median age today 328
Peak year 20222012
Best rank 1,343rd girls1,125th girls
Rank in 2025 1,710th1,186th
First recorded 20111908
Girls / boys 930 / 010,319 / 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 Evangelinas alive today are over 28; half the Evalunas are over 3. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Evaluna Evangelina
England and Wales 3239
France 2535

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Evaluna and Evangelina.