Evan
The boy's name Evan has been in the national records since 1880, with 292,426 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 153rd. About 279,000 Evans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Evan boys named Evan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 292,426
- Estimated living today
- 279,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 40th
- Rank in 2025
- 153rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 4,725 / 287,701
How old the living Evans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 292,426 babies given the name since 1880, about 279,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 103,000 of them are children and 3,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Welsh
Anglicization of Welsh Ifan, ultimately from Latin Jōhannēs, variant of Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης, from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Evans
- Evan Rachel Wood (born 1987)American actress
- Evan Peters (born 1987)American actor
- Evan Hunter (1926–2005)American author and screenwriter
- Evan Ndicka (born 1999)Ivorian-French footballer
- Evan Fournier (born 1992)French basketball player
- Evan Bourne (born 1983)American professional wrestler
- Evan Williams (born 1972)American technology entrepreneur
- Evan Spiegel (born 1990)American businessman
People named Evan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Evan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Evan is most concentrated in Nevada (1.8×), New Hampshire (1.7×), Alaska (1.7×), Vermont (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Evan peaked:
Evan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Evan +2 spellings | 49,340 | 24th |
| England and Wales boys | Evan | 14,796 | 70th |
| Ireland boys | Evan | 7,796 | 25th |
| Scotland boys | Evan | 2,123 | 56th |
| Switzerland boys | Evan +1 spelling | 2,023 | 66th |
| Italy boys | Evan | 1,844 | — |
| Belgium boys | Evan | 1,331 | 178th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Evan | 592 | 79th |
| Poland boys | Evan | 101 birth registrations | 336th |
| England and Wales girls | Evan | 94 | 2,096th |
| France girls | Evan | 55 | 4,078th |
| Norway boys | Evan | 22 | 347th |
| Scotland girls | Evan | 13 | 545th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Evan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Evan | 371 | 0.030% | 202nd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Évan | 4 | 0.000% | 1,106th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Evan | 1,494 | 0.343% | 14th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Évan | 11 | 0.003% | 523rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Evan | 143 | 0.219% | 21st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Evan is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.51% of children were given it – 75 of them.
Evan: rank by region
In 2025, Evan was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Evan | 429 | 13 |
| Wallonia | Evan | 132 | 22 |
In 2023, Evan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Evan | 10 | 1 |
In 2024, Evan was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Evan | 324 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Evan appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (98th), Province of Liège (147th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (218th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Evan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 12 | 447th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Evan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Evan | 174 | 241 |
| Finland girls | Evan | 7 | 12 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Evan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,250 men called Evan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarragona | Evan | 58 | 0.132 | 613 |
| Teruel | Evan | 8 | 0.115 | 612 |
| Palencia | Evan | 9 | 0.114 | 589 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Evan | 51 | 0.096 | 928 |
| Balears, Illes | Evan | 58 | 0.093 | 750 |
| Valencia/València | Evan | 120 | 0.089 | 758 |
Listed in 37 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 15 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Evan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.