Evelyn
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Evelyn is both a surname
and a given name
in the English language
. The modern given name is a unisex name
, although it is more commonly borne by females. The given name is derived from the surname. The surname is derived from Aveline, a feminine Norman French name, which is a form of Ava
. Evelyn is also sometimes used as an Anglicisation of the Irish or Aibhilín and Éibhleann. Aibhilín is a variant form of Eibhlín, which is also derived from the Norman French Aveline. Éibhleann, on the other hand, is said to be derived from the Old Irish óiph, which means "radiance", "beauty"; a variant of this name is Éibhliu, another Anglicised form of the name is Evilin.
Variant forms of the feminine given name Eveylyn include: Evelyne, Eveline, Evylen, Eveleen.
Men
Evelyn, Nurse Pearl Harbor
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
and a given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
in the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. The modern given name is a unisex name
Unisex name
A unisex name, also known as an epicene name, is a given name that is often given to either a boy or a girl. Some countries, however, require that a given name be gender-specific or have enough names with male and female versions...
, although it is more commonly borne by females. The given name is derived from the surname. The surname is derived from Aveline, a feminine Norman French name, which is a form of Ava
Ava (given name)
Ava is a feminine given name in the English language. The name is possibly derived from a Germanic name, composed of the element av, which is of an uncertain meaning. It is also possible that modern given name may be a completely modern creation...
. Evelyn is also sometimes used as an Anglicisation of the Irish or Aibhilín and Éibhleann. Aibhilín is a variant form of Eibhlín, which is also derived from the Norman French Aveline. Éibhleann, on the other hand, is said to be derived from the Old Irish óiph, which means "radiance", "beauty"; a variant of this name is Éibhliu, another Anglicised form of the name is Evilin.
Variant forms of the feminine given name Eveylyn include: Evelyne, Eveline, Evylen, Eveleen.
Persons with the given name
Women- Evelyn AshfordEvelyn AshfordEvelyn Ashford is a retired American athlete, the 1984 Olympic champion in the 100 m. She has run under the 11 second barrier over 30 times and was the first to run under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games.As a 19-year-old, Ashford finished 5th in the 100 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics...
(born 1957), American sprinter, gold medalist for the 100 m race in the 1984 Summer Olympics - Evelyn Margaret AyEvelyn Margaret AyEvelyn Margaret Ay Sempier was winner of the 1954 Miss America beauty pageant.-Biography:Evelyn Ay Sempier was born the daughter of German immigrants in Ephrata, Pennsylvania....
, winner of the 1954 Miss America pageant - Evelyn Beatrice HallEvelyn Beatrice HallEvelyn Beatrice Hall, , who wrote under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire with the title The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906....
, writer and biographer of Voltaire - Evelyn BrentEvelyn BrentEvelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone...
(1899–1975), American film and stage actress - Evelyn CarreraEvelyn CarreraEvelyn Carrera Pichardo is a retired female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #5 jersey. There she ended up in eleventh place with the Dominican Republic women's national team...
(born 1971), Dominican Republic volleyball player - Evelyn De MorganEvelyn De MorganEvelyn De Morgan was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter.She was born Evelyn Pickering. Her parents were of upper middle class. Her father was Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract...
(1855–1919), English Pre-Raphaelite painter - Ewelina FlintaEwelina FlintaEwelina Flinta is a Polish singer. She has performed at Przystanek Woodstock and Teatr Buffo. She rose to fame by coming second in the first season of the television show Idol.-Awards:...
(born 1979), Polish singer - Evelyn GarciaEvelyn GarcíaEvelyn García Marroquín is a Salvadoran cycle racer who rides for the Fenixs team. She is something of an all-rounder, having won time-trials and mountain stages in the past. She has won the Vuelta a El Salvador on two occasions, the only woman yet to do so, in 2004 and 2007...
, Mexican engineer who recently eloped to Central America - Evelyne GebhardtEvelyne GebhardtEvelyne Gebhardt is a German politician. Since 1994 she has been a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD...
(born 1954), German politician and Member of the European Parliament - Evelyn GigantesEvelyn GigantesEvelyn Adelaide Gigantes is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on three occasions between 1975 and 1995, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.The daughter of Earle Sanford Peach...
(born 1945), Canadian politician and Cabinet Minister - Evelyn Grady, first woman to be elected as the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Mississippi, USA (1975)
- Evelyn HartEvelyn HartEvelyn Anne Hart, CC, OM, FRSC is a Canadian ballerina and former principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied dance at the Dorothy Carter School of Dance in London, Ontario and later on at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School...
(born 1956), Canadian ballerina and principal dancer of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet - Evelyn HookerEvelyn HookerEvelyn Hooker was a North American psychologist most notable for her 1957 paper "The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual" in which she administered psychological tests to groups of self-identified homosexuals and heterosexuals and asked experts, based on those tests alone, to select the...
(1907–1996), American psychologist most noted for her studies on homosexuality - Evelyn HernandezEvelyn HernandezEvelyn Hernandez was a woman who disappeared along with her five-year-old son in San Francisco, California in May 2002. She was nine months pregnant with her second child at the time she went missing.-Disappearance and murder:...
(1978–2002), Salvadoran immigrant to the United States who was found dead in San Francisco in 2002 - Evelyn KeyesEvelyn KeyesEvelyn Louise Keyes was an American film actress. She is best-known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.-Early life:...
(born 1919), American actress most noted for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind - Evelyn King (singer)Evelyn King (singer)Evelyn "Champagne" King is an American R&B, disco and post-disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame", "Love Come Down," and "I'm in Love."-Biography:...
(born 1960), popular American R&B and disco singer of the late '70s and early '80s - Evelyn Kokota (born 1976) Russian programmer
- Evelyn LauEvelyn Lau- Biography :Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Chinese-Canadian parents, who intended for her to eventually become a doctor. Her parents' ambitions for her were wholly irreconcilable with her own; consequently, her home and school lives were desperately unhappy...
(born 1971), Chinese-Canadian poet and novelist - Evelyn LayeEvelyn LayeEvelyn Laye, CBE was an English theatre and film actress.-Early years and career:Born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, Laye made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr...
(1900–1996), British theatre actress - Evelyn LearEvelyn LearEvelyn Lear is an American soprano and opera singer.During her career between 1959 and 1992, Evelyn Lear appeared in more than forty operatic roles, appeared with every major opera company in the US and won a Grammy Award in 1966...
(born 1926), American soprano and opera singer - Evelyn LincolnEvelyn LincolnEvelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln was the personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the United States Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination in Dallas. Mrs...
(1909–1995), personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination - Evelyn Beatrice LongmanEvelyn Beatrice LongmanEvelyn Beatrice Longman was the first woman sculptor to be elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1919. Her allegorical figure works were commissioned as monuments and memorials, adornment for public buildings, and attractions at art expositions in early 20th-century America.-...
(1874–1954), American sculptor and first woman to be elected a full member of the National Academy of Design - Evelyn NesbitEvelyn NesbitEvelyn Nesbit was an American artists' model and chorus girl, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry Kendall Thaw.-Early life:...
(1884–1967), American model noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover by her first husband - Evelyn Ntoko (1922–2004), South African nurse and first wife of Nelson Mandela
- Evelina PapantoniouEvelina PapantoniouEvelina Papantoniou, born June 7, 1979 in Athens, is a Greek fashion model and actress. She started modeling at the age of 15, and worked as a bartender and waitress before winning the title Miss Star Hellas in 2001 and representing Greece at the Miss Universe 2001 pageant, where she placed as 1st...
(born 1979), Greek model - Evelina PapouliaEvelina PapouliaEvelina Papoulia , born in Athens, Greece, on 25 March 1971, is a Greek actress/dancer.-Career:In 1989 she moved to New York to study dance at The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and acting at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute...
(born 1971), Greek actress - Evelyn PreerEvelyn PreerEvelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis , was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity...
(1896–1932), African-American actress and blues singer - Evelyn ReedEvelyn ReedEvelyn Reed was an American communist and women’s rights activist.In January 1940, she traveled to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There, at the house of Trotsky in Coyoacán, Reed met the American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, leader of...
(1905–1979), leading member of the American Socialist Workers Party and women's rights agitator - Evelyn ThomasEvelyn ThomasEvelyn Thomas is an American singer from Chicago, Illinois, best known for the dance hits "High Energy", "Masquerade", "Standing At The Crossroads", "Reflections", and "WeakSpot"....
(born 1945), American disco singer - Evelyn TubbEvelyn TubbSoprano Evelyn Tubb is a long-time member of The Consort of Musicke and one of the world's greatest early music specialists, known for her innovative and original performances. She originally comes from the Isle of Wight and studied piano, trumpet, violin and singing...
, soprano and long-time member of The Consort of Musicke - Evelyn UnderhillEvelyn UnderhillEvelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism....
(1875–1941), English writer on mysticism and metaphysical poet - Evelyn VerrasztóEvelyn VerrasztóEvelyn Verrasztó is a Hungarian swimmer, who twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2004 and 2008.Her father and coach, Zoltán Verrasztó, and her brother, Dávid Verrasztó are also swimmers....
(born 1989), Hungarian swimmer - Evelyn WellsEvelyn WellsEvelyn Wells was a 20th century biographer and author most known for her biographies of the ancient Egyptian royals of the 18th dynasty, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut.-Biography:...
, biographer, especially of the ancient Egyptian royals - Evelyn WilliamsonEvelyn WilliamsonEvelyn Catherine Laura Williamson is an athlete from New Zealand, who competes in triathlon.Williamson competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics...
(born 1971), New Zealand triathlon athlete
Men
- Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of CromerEvelyn Baring, 1st Earl of CromerEvelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM, GCMG, KCSI, CIE, PC, FRS , was a British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator....
(1841–1917), Consul-General of Egypt from 1883 to 1907 - Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of GlendaleEvelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of GlendaleEvelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, KG, GCMG, KCVO was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944 and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959....
(1903–1973), Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959 - Evelyn King (UK politician)Evelyn King (UK politician)Evelyn Mansfield King was a British member of parliament for both the Labour Party and then the Conservative Party....
(1907–1994), British member of Parliament - Evelyn OwenEvelyn OwenEvelyn Ernest Owen was the Australian who developed the Owen Submachine Gun which was used in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.-Early life:Evelyn Owen was born on 15 May 1915 in Wollongong, New South Wales...
(1915-1949), Australian inventor of the Owen submachine gun - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-HullEvelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-HullEvelyn Pierrepont, 5th Earl and 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull had been member of parliament for East Retford before his accession to the peerage in 1690. While serving as one of the commissioners for the union with Scotland he was created Marquess of Dorchester in 1706, and took a leading part in...
(c. 1655–1726) - Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of SomersetEvelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of SomersetEvelyn Francis Edward Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset, etc. KStJ DSO OBE was a British Army officer, landowner, peer, and for eight years Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. He was also a baronet.-Early life:...
(1882–1954) - Evelyn WaughEvelyn WaughArthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer...
(1903–1966), English satirical novelist, whose first wife was also named Evelyn - Evelyn John Webb-CarterEvelyn John Webb-CarterMajor General Sir Evelyn John Webb-Carter KCVO, OBE, DL was the last 'Colonel of The Regiment' of The Duke of Wellington's Regiment , before their amalgamation into the Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Battalion .-Early life:Webb-Carter is the son of Brigadier Brian Wolsey Webb-Carter DSO & Bar, OBE .He...
, former advisor to Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and current Controller of the Army Benevolent Fund - Evelyn Wood (British Army officer) (1838–1919), British Field marshal, Victoria Cross recipient
- Evelyn Robert de RothschildEvelyn Robert de RothschildSir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild is a British financier, and a member of the Rothschild family.-Early life:The son of Anthony Gustav de Rothschild and Yvonne Cahen d'Anvers , he was named after his uncle Evelyn Achille de Rothschild who was killed in action in World War I...
, British financier and member of the prominent Rothschild family.
Fictional characters with the name
- Evelyn a fictional character portrayed by Sissy Spacek in The Ring 2
- Evelyn Carnahan, fictional character played by Rachel Weisz in The MummyThe Mummy (1999 film)The Mummy is a 1999 American adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah and Kevin J. O'Connor, with Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. The film features substantial dialogue in ancient Egyptian language, spoken...
- Evelyn Salt, a fictional character portrayed by Angelina Jolie in Salt.
- Evelyn SmytheEvelyn SmytheDr. Evelyn Smythe is a fictional character played by Maggie Stables in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A professor of history from the 20th century with a fondness for chocolate, she is a...
, fictional character played by Maggie Stables in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on Doctor Who - Evelyn "Angel" Martin was Jim Rockford's former prison cellmate on The Rockford FilesThe Rockford FilesThe Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah...
. - Evelynn, The Widowmaker, a playable champion in League of LegendsLeague of LegendsThe BetFred League of Legends was a darts tournament featuring some of the legends of the game of darts which commenced in May 2008. The tournament is broadcast on Setanta Sports in the United Kingdom....
- Ted Evelyn Mosby from How I Met Your MotherHow I Met Your MotherHow I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
. - Evelyn William "Bill" McNeal a fictional character portrayed by Phil HartmanPhil HartmanPhilip Edward "Phil" Hartman was a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family moved to the United States when he was 10...
in the NBC television situation comedy NewsRadioNewsRadioNewsRadio is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1995 to 1999. The series was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was filmed in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center and Sunset Gower Studios...
' - Evelyn Gardener a fictional character in the movie A League of Their OwnA League of Their OwnA League of Their Own is a 1992 American comedy-drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League . Directed by Penny Marshall, the film stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell...
Evelyn, Nurse Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor, known to Hawaiians as Puuloa, is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet...