Evaline

Where Evaline comes from

Evaline hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1876
    Evaline Hilda Burkitt born
    UK suffragette -first to be force fed
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #583
    13 babies named Evaline — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #993.
  5. 1911
    Evaline Ness born
    American illustrator and children's writer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Evaline Ness · American illustrator and children's writer, 1911–1986
  • Evaline Hilda Burkitt · UK suffragette -first to be force fed, 1876–1955

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.