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Evelyn en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈiːvlɪn/ male given name
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈɛvəlɪn/ female given name
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English forms of the Old French female name Aveline, diminutive of the Germanic root *avi-, of uncertain meaning, possibly “desired, wished for“ (compare Latin avēre, "to wish for") or aval “strength”. By folk etymology also misunderstood as a diminutive of the feminine given name Eve, q.v. Doublet of Eileen. Also compare Ava.

Meanings

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • "I don't wear flowers," Evelyn Lilith said, and tossed the unwanted chain into the air, spearing it before it fell with a pellet from her unerring Daisy air-pistol. Destroying flowers with a Daisy, she served notice that she was not to be manacled, not even by a necklace: she was our capricious, whirligig Lill-of-the-Hill. And also Eve. The Adam's-apple of my eye. 1980, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Alfred A.Knopf, published 1981, →ISBN, page 179:
    • Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour. 1855, Robert Browning, Evelyn Hope:
  2. A surname originating as a matronymic.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • Evelyn Waugh
  4. A place name: ▸ A rural locality in Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia.
  5. A place name: ▸ A community in Middlesex Centre municipality, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
  6. A place name: ▸ A locality in Munising Township, Alger County, Michigan, United States.
  7. A place name: ▸ An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas, United States.
  8. A place name: ▸ A former unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia, United States.

Deriveds

Mount Evelyn

Relateds

Eveleen · Evelynn · Ev · Eileen · Eveline · Ava

Translations (15)

pl Ewelina (female given name) · ru Э́велин (female given name) · ga Eibhlín (female given name) · lv Evelīna (female given name) · pt Evelin (female given name) · cmn 伊夫琳 (female given name) · pt Evelina (female given name) · fr Évelyne (female given name) · hu Evelin (female given name) · sv Evelina (female given name) · ru Эвели́на (female given name) · et Evelin (female given name) · fi Eveliina (female given name) · cs Evelína (female given name) · el Εβελίνα (female given name)