Evangelina

Where Evangelina comes from

An alteration of Evangeline.
— Wiktionary's entry for Evangelina
  • 5 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1908
    First appearance
    #1,862 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Evangelina Elizondo born
    Mexican actress
  3. 1929
    Peak, #715
    96 babies named Evangelina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1981
    Evangelina Carrozzo born
    Argentine model, beauty queen, dancer and counselor
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
  • Evangelina Elizondo · Mexican actress, 1929–2017
  • Evangelina Carrozzo · Argentine model, beauty queen, dancer and counselor, born 1981
  • Evangelina García Prince · Venezuelan activist, politician, and academic, 1934–2019
  • Evangelina Salazar · Argentine actress, born 1946
  • Evangelina Guerrero Zacarías · Filipino poet and journalist, 1904–1949

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.