Evalyn

Where Evalyn comes from

From Eva + Lyn, or a variant of Evelyn.
— Wiktionary's entry for Evalyn
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Evalyn Walsh McLean born
    American socialite
  3. 1906
    Evalyn Knapp born
    actress
  4. 1918
    Peak, #446
    222 babies named Evalyn — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1925
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #758.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
  • Evalyn Knapp · actress, 1906–1981
  • Evalyn Walsh McLean · American socialite, 1886–1947
  • Evalyn Gates · Physicist , author , museum innovator, born 1958

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.