Evon
Feminine · “God is gracious”
Evon is given to both — 3,732 girls and 760 boys since 1880. See Evon as a boy nameSee other names given to both
A great many Welsh surnames are a fossilized ap. Ap means son of, and when Welsh families took fixed surnames the particle fused onto the front of the father's name: ap Hywel gave Powell, ap Rhys gave Price, ap Richard gave Pritchard, and ab Ieuan gave Bevan.
How old is the name Evon?
Evon first appears in US birth records in 1904 — 121 years ago. The typical Evon alive today was born around 1952, making them about 73 years old. About 2,500 people named Evon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Evon most popular?
Evon peaked in 1954, reaching #872 nationally. See the whole 1954 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Yochanan to Evon
The story of Evon
The fusion is one of the tidiest things in British surname history and it explains a whole column of the Welsh phone book. Ap became a p and ab became a b, and both stuck to whatever followed: Probert from ap Robert, Pugh from ap Hugh, Bowen from ab Owen, Beddoe from ab Iddon. Ieuan is the Welsh form of John, and it gave Ifan, then Evan in English spelling, and ab Ieuan gave Bevan. So a Welshman named Bevan is carrying a whole phrase — son of John — with the grammar welded on. The name reached English use in the nineteenth century and the Evon spelling is a later American variant.
Meaningscholars disagree
God is gracious
If the name is Evan respelled, it is the Welsh form of John, from Ieuan and Ifan, and behind that Hebrew Yochanan. If it is Yvon, it is the French masculine of Yves, from a Germanic word for the yew tree. Both are live and the spelling does not choose.
How the name formed
- Yochanan
- Ieuan
- Evan
- Evon
Related forms: Ifan · Yvon
Pronouncing Evon
EV-un
Two syllables, stress on the first. Evan and Evon are said identically. The French Yvon has the weight at the end and a nasal ending, ee-VON.
Nicknames for Evon
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
- 1904
- Most girls named
- 195996 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #872reached in 1954
- Change vs 2021
- −16.7%5 in 2024, 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.
Evon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ifan in Welsh — same name
- Yvon in French — related form
Evons among us
people named Evon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Evon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- One of its two possible sources belongs to the largest name family in Europe.
- Two syllables that everyone reads correctly on sight.
- It serves either child, and the records show both.
- Evan is far commoner and this spelling will be corrected toward it.
- It sits between a Welsh name and a French one that mean entirely different things.
- The very few girls given this spelling will be read as boys on every form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Evons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Evon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Evon in 2025?
- Evon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Evon with classmates?
- Evon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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