Evangelene

History & Origin

Evangelene is a variant of Evangeline, a name rooted in the Greek evangelion, meaning good news or gospel, so it reads as bearer of good news. Longfellow's long poem Evangeline gave the fuller form wide currency in the nineteenth century. The Evangelene spelling is a modern touch, appearing in United States birth records with a small high around the early twenty-tens, riding the broader revival of ornate, faith-tinged girl names.

It has stayed rare, given to only a couple dozen girls a year even now, though the parent Evangeline is genuinely fashionable again. That makes Evangelene an unusual spin on a name that is very much part of the current vintage-revival trend.