English

Proper noun

Evelyn

1. A female given name.
   • 1855 Robert Browning: Evelyn Hope:

     Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour.

   • 1980 Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children. Alfred A.Knopf 1981. ISBN 0-394-51470-X page 179:

     "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.

2. A matronymic surname​.
3. A male given name, transferred from the surname.

Related terms

• Ava
• Eileen
• Eveleen
• Eveline

Translations

Anagrams

• evenly
• levyne

German

Proper noun

Evelyn

1. A female given name borrowed from English.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Evelyn

1. A female given name borrowed from English.