Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Evangelos isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1922. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Evangelos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,162
- 1,162 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,331 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −15%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,331 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 15.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 36 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,614 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Evangelos’s family of names
In English usage, Evangelos has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Ευάγγελος.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Evangelos
- VangelisGreek composer (1943-2022)
- Evangelos VenizelosGreek politician (born 1957)
- Theo EvanGreek-Cypriot singer-songwriter and dancerborn 2002
- Evangelos DamaskosGreek pole vaulter1801
- Evangelos ZappasGreek philanthropist and businessman1800–1865
- Evangelos MarinakisGreek businessmanborn 1967
- Evangelos RallisGreek tennis player1874–2000
- Evangelos Gerakeris(1871-1913) Greek athlete
- Evangelos AveroffGreek politician and writer (1910-1990)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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