Given name & surname
Evald
“as battle-ready as a boar”
Evald is a variant of Everild. One English interpretation is “as battle-ready as a boar.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Evald is a variant of Everild. One English interpretation is “as battle-ready as a boar.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Evald is a variant of Everild. An origin associated with Everild is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Evald through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 49
- 49 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1929. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1915.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Evald’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Evald has a short form in Eve. In Swedish usage, Evald shares a linguistic root with the Lithuanian form EVALDAS. Evald has a related form in Everild.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Evald
- Evald AavEstonian composer and choirmaster (1900–1939)
- Evald IlyenkovRussian philosopher (1924–1979)
- Evald TipnerEstonian footballer and bandy player (1906-1947)
- Evald SchormCzech film and theatre director (1931-1988)
- Evald OkasEstonian painter and printmaker (1915-2011)
- Evald MiksonEstonian footballer and ice hockey player (1911-1993)
- Evald FlisarSlovenian writer, playwright, editorborn 1945
- Evald RyghNorwegian politician (1842-1913)
- Evald Tang KristensenFolklore collector and author1843–1929
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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