Evelyn

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

English variant form of Evelina (see also -lyn)

Related Names

See Evelina

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Evelynarson
Evelynson

Female

Evelynardóttir
Evelyndóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Evelyn
Genitive:	Evelyns

- Finnish
Nominative:	Evelyn
Genitive:	Evelynin
Partitive:	Evelyniä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Evelyn
Accusative:	Evelyn
Dative:	Evelyn
Genitive:	Evelynar / Evelyn

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Evelyn
Genitive:	Evelyns

- Swedish
Nominative:	Evelyn
Genitive:	Evelyns

Name Day

Norway

3 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1817
  • 19th century
• Denmark:
  • 19th century
  • early 20th century
  • 20th century
• Norway:
  • 20th century
• Iceland:
  • 1921-1940
  • Officially approved as a given name on 2 October 2003

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1920-1939
• Denmark:
  • 1910-1950
  • 1920-1939

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Austlandet
• Denmark: København

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		1430	3221	1428	3215	2	6
Denmark		462	n.a.	462	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	698	n.a.	698	0	0
Iceland		22	34	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		3	4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		1978	n.a.	1978	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend