Evelina
The Latin root ties it back to Eve: "desired", or simply "life". Long a rarity most Poles never crossed paths with, it's climbing again, with more girls given it last year than in most years before.
Evelina Pronunciation
What Evelina means
Where Evelina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Evelina comes from Latin, and English lends it the sense of "desired" or "life," a meaning borrowed from Eve. In Poland the name reads differently. Here it gathers around radość and światło, joy and light, an association fixed to the sound rather than drawn from the origin itself.
The variant Ewelina is the form most Polish children answer to in a class register. Evelina keeps the older spelling, closer to how the name moved across Europe.
One bearer worth naming is fictional. Frances Burney published her novel Evelina in 1778, and the book carried the name into English drawing rooms. From there it spread. The short meaning, desired, sits beside the Polish reading of light, and both hold at once, since a name collects its senses over centuries. The Polish sense stays plain: radość and światło.
How many people are named Evelina
1 in 7570 women in Poland is named Evelina. 2,978 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #590 among female names.
Evelina's popularity over time
65 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #307 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2012.
Where parents choose Evelina
Evelina is most popular in Łódź, 110% above the national average (29 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+99%) and Masovian (+92%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 72% and 66% below average respectively.
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Łódź
+110%1 in 4,370 babies
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Lower Silesian
+99%1 in 4,622 babies
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Masovian
+92%1 in 4,787 babies
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Podlaskie
−72%1 in 32,893 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−66%1 in 27,345 babies
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Subcarpathian
−62%1 in 24,113 babies
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Łódź+110% 29 born1 in 4,370 babies+110%
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Lower Silesian+99% 34 born1 in 4,622 babies+99%
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Masovian+92% 74 born1 in 4,787 babies+92%
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Holy Cross+16% 7 born1 in 7,919 babies+16%
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Lubusz−7% 5 born1 in 9,931 babies−7%
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Greater Poland−15% 20 born1 in 10,762 babies−15%
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Opole−20% 4 born1 in 11,524 babies−20%
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West Pomeranian−24% 7 born1 in 12,061 babies−24%
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Lublin−37% 7 born1 in 14,668 babies−37%
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Silesian−39% 15 born1 in 15,172 babies−39%
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Pomeranian−44% 9 born1 in 16,369 babies−44%
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Lesser Poland−59% 10 born1 in 22,692 babies−59%
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Subcarpathian−62% 5 born1 in 24,113 babies−62%
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Warmian-Masurian−62% 3 born1 in 23,931 babies−62%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−66% 4 born1 in 27,345 babies−66%
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Podlaskie−72% 2 born1 in 32,893 babies−72%
Evelina as a middle name
Evelina is a first name for 2,978 women in Poland and a middle name for another 48, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 991st, between Dominica (48) and India (48).
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#989 Anatolia48
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#990 Dominica48
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#991 Evelina48
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#992 India48
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#993 Leonor48