Evangaline
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ee-VAN-juh-leen
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Evangaline is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “good news”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Evangaline mean?
Greek: variant of Evangeline, coined by Longfellow from Greek euangelion
“good news”
Evangeline is the heroine of Longfellow's 1847 poem about the expulsion of the Acadians.
Is Evangaline a girl's or a boy's name?
Evangaline is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Evangaline in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Evangaline, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had more girls named Evangaline than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Evangaline in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Evangaline in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
Nicknames for Evangaline
Names like Evangaline
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Calliope Persephone Coraline Elodie Elowyn Everly Eliette Elianna Phoebe Esme Hermione Emmeline
Names related to Evangaline
More Greek names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Evangaline: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/evangaline, updated 20 October 2026.