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Evlyn

The girl's name Evlyn has been in the national records since 1890, with 959 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 300 Evlyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Evlyn

By the numbers

Total US births
959
Estimated living today
300
Median age today
16
Peak year
1919
Best rank
1,270th
Rank in 2025
11,932nd
First recorded
1890

How old the living Evlyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 959 babies given the name since 1890, about 300 are alive — 32 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Evlyn is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1919

The most popular girls’ names the year Evlyn peaked:

All the names of 1919

Evlyn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Evlyn 125 2,058th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.