Evelyn

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Possibly 'desired, wished for', from the Germanic root behind the Old French name Aveline”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Oliver — Possibly from Old Norse Óleifr ('ancestral' + 'relic'); popularly linked by folk etymology to the Latin word for olive tree
• Kanta — Beautiful, beloved, desired
• Amelia — From a Germanic root meaning 'vigor, bravery'
• Ava — Of uncertain meaning; used as a variant of Eva/Eve, an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife, or from an uncertain Germanic root
• Maulik — Original, precious, root
• Mia — A German, Dutch, and North Germanic diminutive of Maria

Where this comes from

Evelyn has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.