Evelin
Fewer than a hundred people in Poland carry Evelin, so most Poles will never meet one. Hebrew at root, it ties back to the ideas of life and being desired, and it lands almost entirely on girls.
Evelin Pronunciation
What Evelin means
Where Evelin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Evelin reaches back to Hebrew, to the root behind Ewa and the older Chawwah, which meant life. The short meaning kept in English, desired and life, stays close to that beginning. A child named Evelin is tied to one of the oldest words for being alive.
Joy and light arrived later. In Polish the name gathers radość and światło, glosses that readers attached long after the Hebrew root was set. They are a way of hearing the name, not its source.
Picture a school register in September, the teacher reading Evelin between Ewa and Emilia. The final n marks the modern, borrowed spelling.
How many people are named Evelin
1 in 247734 women in Poland is named Evelin. 95 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3560 among female names.
Evelin's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Evelin as a middle name
Evelin is a first name for 95 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2067th, between Eugienia (13) and Fadzai (13).
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#2065 Emiliia13
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#2066 Eugienia13
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#2067 Evelin13
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#2068 Fadzai13
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#2069 Fatou13