Evelina

Where Evelina comes from

The dictionaries list Evelina as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1867
    Evelina Haverfield born
    British suffragette and aid worker
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1887
    Peak, #524
    18 babies named Evelina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,147.
  5. 1987
    Evelina Sašenko born
    Lithuanian musician
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.
Namesakes
  • Evelina Sašenko · Lithuanian musician, born 1987
  • Evelina Haverfield · British suffragette and aid worker, 1867–1920
  • Evelina Samuelsson · Swedish ice hockey player, born 1984
  • Evelina Raselli · Swiss ice hockey player, born 1992
  • Evelina Eriksson · Swedish handball goalkeeper, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.