Evan is a Welsh

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 masculine

Masculine

Masculine or masculinity, normally refer to qualities positively associated with men.Masculine may also refer to:*Masculine , a grammatical gender*Masculine cadence, a final chord occurring on a strong beat in music...

 given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

, although it has on the rare occasion been given to girls as well, as with actress Evan Rachel Wood

Evan Rachel Wood

Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress and singer. She began her acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic and Once and Again...

. The name is derived from "lefan", one of the other Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 forms of John

John (name)

John is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Latin Ioannes, Iohannes, which is in turn a form of the Greek , Iōánnēs. This Greek name is a form of the Hebrew name , , which means "God is generous"...

 and is closely related to "Ivan

Ivan

-Meteorology:* Tropical Storm Ivan - a number of tropical storms - Places:* Ivan Mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina* Iván, a village in Hungary* Ivaň, name common to two villages in Czech Republic...

", "Ian

Ian

"Ian", "Iain", or "Eian" is the Scottish Gaelic version of the name John. It is a very common name in much of the English-speaking world...

", and "Juan

Juan

Juan is a given name, the Spanish language version of John. It is very common in Spain and in Spanish-speaking communities around the world. The feminine form is Juana, or Juanita on its diminutive....

"; the name John is derived from the ancient Hebrew name , which means "YHWH Is Gracious". Evan is also a Celtic name meaning "Young Warrior". It can also be the shortened version of the Greek name Evangelos. Evanna is an extended name from Evan, usually named for girls, while Eva is a shortened name from Evan for girls. Evan used as a last name can be Evans.

Popularity

The popularity of the name Evan in the United States has risen steadily over the past fifty years, from the 440-ranked name in 1957 to the 38-ranked name in 2008. Overall, Evan has been the 48th most popular name in the world and the sixty-third most popular name in the 1990s.

	| Evan's popularity from 1997-2008
Year	Rank
2008	38
2007	40
2006	42
2005	38
2004	39
2003	44
2002	56
2001	56
2000	55
1999	57
1998	63
1997	60
Source: Social Security Administration. See http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames

Notable people with the given name Evan

See also:

• Evan Alexander, American politician
• Evan Bayh
  Evan Bayh
  Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III is a lawyer, advisor and former Democratic politician who served as the junior U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997. Bayh is a current Fox News contributor as of March 14, 2011.Bayh first held...
  
  , former Governor of Indiana and United States Senator from Indiana
  Indiana
  Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
  
  
• Evan Bourne
  Matt Sydal
  Matthew Joseph Korklan is an American professional wrestler, also known as Matt Sydal and Evan Bourne. He is signed with WWE and wrestles on its Raw brand under the ring name Evan Bourne, where he is currently one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions with Kofi Kingston as Air Boom.Before signing...
  
  , ring name of American professional wrestler Matthew Joseph Korklan
• Evan Chambers
  Evan Chambers
  Evan Chambers is a composer, traditional Irish fiddler, and Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan. He received a Doctorate in music composition from the University of Michigan...
  
  , American musician
• Evan Cooper
  Evan Cooper
  Evan Cooper is a former professional American football safety for six seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Atlanta Falcons. He graduated from Miami Killian Senior High School...
  
  , former professional American football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   player
• Evan Dando
  Evan Dando
  Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock band The Lemonheads. He is the only original member left in the current Lemonheads line-up, having served as lead singer since the band's original formation in 1986...
  
  , American musician
• Evan Dara
  Evan Dara
  Evan Dara is an American postmodern novelist. In 1995, his first novel The Lost Scrapbook won the 12th Annual FC/2 Illinois State University National Fiction Competition judged by William T. Vollmann...
  
  , American novelist
• Evan Davis
  Evan Davis (journalist)
  Evan Harold Davis is a British economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC. In October 2001, Davis took over from Peter Jay as the BBC's economics editor. He left this post in April 2008 to become a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme...
  
  , British economist and journalist
• Evan Dobelle
  Evan Dobelle
  Evan Samuel Dobelle is a public official and higher-education administrator, is known for promoting higher-education investment in the Creative Economy, public-private partnerships and the "College Ready" model that helps students graduate from high school and college.-Life:Evan Samuel Dobelle...
  
  , American educator
• Evan Dunham
  Evan Dunham
  Evan Dunham is an American mixed martial artist who currently fights for Ultimate Fighting Championship in their lightweight division...
  
  , American mixed martial artist
• Evan Eschmeyer
  Evan Eschmeyer
  Evan Bruce Eschmeyer is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets in the 2nd round of the 1999 NBA Draft. A 6'11" center from Northwestern University, Eschmeyer played in four NBA seasons from 1999–2003...
  
  , former American professional basketball player
• Evan Forde
  Evan Forde
  Evan B. Forde is an African-American oceanographer.Forde was born in Miami, Florida and received his primary education in the local public school system. He received his bachelor's degree in Geology and his Master's degree in marine geology and geophysics, both from Columbia University in New York...
  
  , American oceanographer
• Evan G. Galbraith
  Evan G. Galbraith
  Evan Griffith Galbraith was the United States Ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985 under Ronald Reagan and the Secretary of Defense Representative in Europe under Donald Rumsfeld from 2002 to 2007....
  
  , former United States Ambassador to France
• Evan Gray
  Evan Gray
  Evan Murdoch Stephen Gray is a proffessional hockey player for the Fredericton High School men's hockey team. He previously played for the LC Lions of the Fredericton Youth Hockey Association, where he was second in team scoring during the 2010-2011 season. He currently sports a 90% average in his...
  
  , former New Zealand cricketer
• Evan Harris
  Evan Harris
  Evan Leslie Harris is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon from 1997 to 2010, losing his seat in the 2010 general election by 176 votes to Conservative Nicola Blackwood....
  
  , British politician
• Evan Howell
  Evan Howell
  Evan Park Howell was an American politician and early telegraph operator, as well as an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War....
  
  , American politician and soldier
• Evan Kaufmann
  Evan Kaufmann
  Evan Kaufmann is an American professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for DEG Metro Stars of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga .Kaufmann, who is Jewish, was born in Plymouth, Minnesota.-Career statistics:-External links:...
  
  , ice hockey player
• Evan Kim
  Evan C. Kim
  Evan C. Kim is an American actor. He is best known for playing Loo in the 1977 comedy The Kentucky Fried Movie's "A Fistful of Yen" segment, the interpreter Cowboy in the 1978 Vietnam War film Go Tell the Spartans, the erudite caveman Nook in the cult 1981 comedy Caveman, Suki in the 1982 B movie...
  
  , American actor
• Evan Longoria
  Evan Longoria
  Evan Michael Longoria is a Major League Baseball third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays. Formerly, Longoria was a star infielder for the Long Beach State University baseball team, the Cape Cod League MVP, and the Big West Co-Player of the Year.He made his major league debut for the Rays in , and...
  
  , American professional baseball player
• Evan Lysacek
  Evan Lysacek
  Evan Frank Lysacek is an American figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, the 2005 & 2007 Four Continents champion, the 2007 & 2008 U.S. national champion, and the 2009/2010 Grand Prix Final champion....
  
  , American figure skater
• Evan Price
  Evan Price
  Evan David Lewis Price is a barrister at , Lincoln's Inn in London and Conservative politician and is second on the Welsh Conservatives' list of candidates for the next European Parliamentary elections in 2009.-Background:...
  
  , Welsh politician
• Evan Pugh
  Evan Pugh
  Evan Pugh was the first president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1859 until his death from cholera in 1864. An agricultural chemist, he was responsible for securing Penn State's designation in 1863 as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Land Grant Act...
  
  , First President of Penn State University
• Evan Roberts
  Evan Roberts (minister)
  Evan John Roberts , was a leading figure of the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival who suffered many setbacks in his later life.His obituary in The Western Mail summed up his career thus:- Early life :...
  
  , Welsh revivalist
• Evan Roberts
  Evan Roberts (radio personality)
  Evan Roberts is an American sports radio personality. He currently hosts the midday show with Joe Benigno on WFAN in New York City.Roberts grew up in Cedarhurst, New York and graduated from Lawrence High School in 2001....
  
  , American radio personality
• Evan Tanner
  Evan Tanner
  Evan Loyd Tanner was an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He was a former UFC Middleweight and USWF Heavyweight champion with a professional record of 32 wins and 8 losses...
  
  , American mixed martial artist
• Evan Lorimer Thomas
  Evan Lorimer Thomas
  Evan Lorimer Thomas was a Welsh clergyman and Professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter from 1903 to 1915....
  
  , Welsh clergyman
• Evan Thomas
  Evan Thomas
  Evan Welling Thomas III is an American journalist and author. He currently teaches journalism at Princeton University.-Life and career:Thomas was born in Huntington, New York and was raised in Cold Spring Harbor, New York...
  
  , American journalist and author
• Evan Turner
  Evan Turner
  Evan Marcel Turner , nicknamed The Villain, is an American basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers. Turner was drafted 2nd overall by the 76ers in the 2010 NBA draft. Turner plays the point guard, shooting guard and small forward positions. Turner is a first-team 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball...
  
  , American professional basketball player
• Evan Rachel Wood
  Evan Rachel Wood
  Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress and singer. She began her acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic and Once and Again...
  
  , American actress
• Evan Royster
  Evan Royster
  Evan Mathias Royster is an American football running back for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. He played college football for Penn State. Royster was a three year starter and is the all-time leading rusher for the Nittany Lions...
  
  , American professional football player
• Evan Stewart
  Evan Stewart
  Evan Stewart is a former Olympic diver for Zimbabwe. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992 ....
  
  , Zimbabwean Olympic diver
• Evan Williams
  Evan Williams (tenor)
  Harry Evan Williams was an oratorio tenor with an exceptionally beautiful and tender voice. He recorded almost one hundred 78-RPM records on the Victor Red Seal label in the United States and His Masters Voice in England...
  
  , American singer
• Evan Wright
  Evan Wright
  Evan Wright is an American writer, journalist, author and television writer and producer. He has reported extensively on subcultures for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. His latest work is American Desperado, a book he co-wrote with Jon Roberts, who was featured in the documentary the Cocaine...
  
  , American writer
• Evan Yo
  Evan Yo
  Evan Yo was born on 12 November 1986. He is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriter, who was signed by his management company at 14 and has been signed by Sony Music Taiwan since 2006. He has released three albums and was nominated for Best New Artist in 2007 at the 18th Golden Melody Awards,...
  
  , Taiwanese pop singer

Popular culture references to the name Evan

• Evan Almighty
  Evan Almighty
  Evan Almighty is a 2007 American religious comedy film and the stand-alone sequel to Bruce Almighty . The film was directed by Tom Shadyac, written by Steve Oedekerk, and starring Steve Carell as the title character. Morgan Freeman also reprised his role as God from the original film. Production of...
  
  , a mainstream movie released on June 22, 2007 as a sequel to the popular Bruce Almighty
  Bruce Almighty
  Bruce Almighty is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk. It stars Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a down-on-his-luck TV reporter who complains to God that He isn't doing His job correctly, and is then offered the chance to try...
  
  .