Evin
Feminine · “swift”
Evin is given to both — 516 girls and 3,193 boys since 1880. See Evin as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Evin is an Irish name with a place on the map to prove it. Eimhin was an early Irish saint, and the town of Monasterevin in County Kildare carries his name inside its own — Mainistir Eimhin, the monastery of Eimhin. The anglicized spelling looks like Evan and sounds close to it, but the two names come from different languages and different centuries.
How old is the name Evin?
Evin first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Evin alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 500 people named Evin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Evin most popular?
Evin peaked in 1989, reaching #3673 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 11,269 places below that high. See the whole 1989 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Éimhín to Evin
The story of Evin
Eimhin belonged to the early Irish church, and the monastery founded in his name in County Kildare kept both the name and the place attached to each other for more than a thousand years — Monasterevin is still on the map, still says the name aloud every time it is read, and is one of very few Irish towns that is simply a person's name with monastery in front of it. The name is built the way Kevin is built, and that is the more useful thing to know: Caoimhin is caomh, gentle, plus the diminutive -in, and Eimhin is eim plus the same ending. They are siblings in construction even though they are unrelated in root. The English spelling comes from the ordinary Irish anglicization habit, in which the letters mh are simply written as v.
Meaningscholars disagree
swift; prompt
Irish Eimhin is usually read against eim, an old word for swiftness or readiness, with the affectionate ending -in attached — so the swift little one, formed the way Irish saints' names generally were. That is a traditional reading rather than a proven one. Two other names share this spelling in America. Evan is Welsh and comes from John. Kurdish Evin is the ordinary word for love, and a common name wherever Kurdish is spoken. Three separate roads, one set of four letters.
How the name formed
- Éimhín
- Eimhin
- Evin
Related forms: Éimhín · Éimíne
Pronouncing Evin
EV-in
EV-in, two syllables, stress at the front — the same opening sound as ever. The Irish Eimhin is closer to AY-veen, with a long first vowel and the weight moved back, and that saying is heard in Ireland rather than in America.
Nicknames for Evin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 198927 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3673reached in 1989
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%5 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Evin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Éimhín in Irish — same name
- Éimíne in Irish — related form
Evins among us
people named Evin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Evin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Evin
- #14942
- Evin on the 2025 chart
- #928
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Evin went to 5 girls in 2025, but Evyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 32, which makes it the 928th most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,014 places above the chart.
- Evyn27
- Evin5
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Evin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Evin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cira climbed just as high around 1945, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cira's path sketches the road Evin is walking now.
Evin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Evin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Evin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters, said exactly as written, with no silent letters anywhere in the English spelling.
- It has a real place on the map behind it — a town in Kildare that has carried the name for centuries.
- It is built the way Kevin is built, from an Irish word plus the affectionate ending, so it belongs to a family of names rather than standing alone.
- Evan is the name everyone hears, and this gets written Evan on forms until it is corrected each time, which is most times.
- Evin is also the name of a prison in Tehran that appears regularly in international news; the association is real, though it belongs to a Persian place name and not to the Irish one.
- It is recorded for girls as well — a small share, but a genuine one — so the spelling settles nothing about sex on paper, and lists will guess in both directions.
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Frequently asked
- How many Evins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Evin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Evin?
- Evin is one of 2 recorded spellings. Evyn is the more common one — 27 births in 2025 against 5 for Evin.
- How popular is the name Evin in 2025?
- Evin ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Evin?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Evin — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Evin with classmates?
- Evin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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