Evelyn (name)

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Evelyn
Pronunciation/ˈɛvʌlɪn/, /ˈiːvlɪn/
Genderunisex
Origin
Word/namefrom Norman French Aveline
Region of originEnglish language speaking areas, Germany, Estonia,
Other names
Related namesEvelina, Avelina, Aveline

Evelyn is a given name in the English language, where it can be used as a first name or a surname.[1]

The name originally was used as a surname, which derived from Aveline, a feminine Norman French diminutive of the name Ava.[2] Ava itself is a hypocoristic Germanic name, of uncertain origin.[3]

Evelyn is also sometimes used as an Anglicisation of the Irish Aibhilín or Éibhleann.[4] Aibhilín (variant Eibhlín) is itself derived from the Norman French Aveline. Éibhleann (variant Éibhliu[1]), on the other hand, is said to be derived from the Old Irish óiph ("beauty"[5]).

Variant forms of the feminine first name Evelyn include: Evaline, Evalyn, Eveleen, Evelien, Eveliene, Evelin, Evelina, Eveline, Evelyne and Ewaline. Some of these forms may (also) have arisen as diminutive forms of Eve.[4][6]

People with this first name[]

Women[]

  • Evelyn M. Anderson (1899–1985), American physiologist and biochemist
  • Evelyn Ankers (1918–1985), American actress
  • Evelyn Ashford (born 1957), America female sprinter, gold medalist of the women's 100 meters running during the 1984 Summer Olympics
  • Evelyn Aswad (fl. 1990s–2020s), American legal scholar and professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law
  • Evelyn Margaret Ay (1933–2008), American beauty pageant winner (Miss America, 1954)
  • Evelyn Vida Baxter (1879–1959), Scottish ornithologist
  • Evelyn Beauchamp, née Herbert (1901–1980), daughter of 5th Earl of Carnarvon and one of the first in people in modern times to enter Tutankhamun's tomb
  • Evelyn Berezin (1925–2018), American computer designer best known for designing the first computer-driven word processor
  • Evelyn Booth (1897–1988), Irish botanist
  • Evelyn Brent (1901–1975), American film and stage actress
  • Evelyn Campbell (actress) (1868 – ?), British-born American actress
  • Evelyn Carow (born 1931), German movie editor
  • Evelyn Carrera (born 1971), Dominican Republic volleyball player
  • Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1870–1960)
  • Evelyn Cheesman (1882–1969), British entomologist and traveller
  • Evelyn Colon, Formerly unidentified American homicide victim
  • Evelyn Colyer (1902–1930), British tennis player
  • Evelyn Magruder DeJarnette (1842–1914), American author
  • Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919), English Pre-Raphaelite painter
  • Evelyn de Soysa (1893-1973), third woman member of Senate of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka)
  • Evelyn Dove (1902–1987), British singer and actress
  • Evelyn Everett-Green (1856–1932), English novelist
  • Evelyn Finley (1916–1989), American actress and stuntwoman
  • Evelyn Furtsch (1914–2015), American sprinter
  • Evelyn García (born 1982), Salvadorian cyclist
  • Evelyn Gardner (1903–1994), English aristocrat and socialite, and first wife of Evelyn Waugh
  • Evelyn Gigantes (born 1945), Canadian politician and Cabinet Minister
  • Evelyn Gandy (1920–2007), American Lieutenant Governor of the state of Mississippi
  • Evelyn Glennie (born 1965), Scottish virtuoso percussionist who has been deaf since age 12
  • Evelyn Gleeson (1855–1944), English embroidery, carpet, and tapestry designer
  • Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956), English writer and biographer of Voltaire
  • Evelyn Hamann (1942–2007), German actress
  • Evelyn Hatch (1871–1951), English muse of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
  • Evelyn Hart (born 1956), Canadian ballerina and principal dancer of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
  • Evelyn Hartley (born 1937), American woman who has been missing since 1953
  • Evelyn Holt (1908–2001), German film actress
  • Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996), American psychologist most noted for her studies on homosexuality
  • Evelyn Bryan Johnson (1909–2012), American pilot with a world record number of flying hours
  • Evelyn Keyes (1916–2008), American actress most noted for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind
  • Evelyn "Champagne" King (born 1960), American R&B and disco singer
  • Evelyn Künneke (1921–2001), German singer and actress
  • Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Chinese-Canadian poet and novelist
  • Evelyn Laye (1900–1996), British theatre actress
  • Evelyn Lear (1926–2012), American soprano and opera singer
  • Evelyn Lincoln (1909–1995), personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination
  • Evelyn Beatrice Longman (1874–1954), American sculptor elected as a full member of the National Academy of Design
  • Evelyn Mase (1922–2004), South African nurse and first wife of Nelson Mandela
  • Evelyn Matthei (born 1953), Chilean politician, former Minister of Labor and candidate for President of Chile in 2013
  • Evelyn Mora (born 1992), Finnish entrepreneur
  • Evelyn Nesbit (1884–1967), American model noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover by her first husband
  • Evelyn Paul (1883-1963), British illustrator
  • Evelyn Preer (1896–1932), African-American actress and blues singer

Female variants[]

Eveleen

Evelien

Evelin

Eveline

Evelyne

Men[]

People with this surname[]

See also: Evelyn baronets

Fictional characters[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), "Evelyn", A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 347, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
  2. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 341, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. "from the Norman female name Aveline, an elaborated form of >Ava."
  3. ^ Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch (1847), 190 adduces OHG awa "flowing water" and Gothic WIKI