Evangeline

Evangeline meaning

Evangeline is an international and Christian girl's name of Greek origin.

Good news, the gospel (Greek euangelion)

Also used to mean: bearer of good news

Evangeline is built on the Greek euangelion, "good news", the word for the gospel. Strong's concordance defines it as a good message, formed from eu, "well", and angelos, "messenger", the same angelos that gives us angel. The name was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline (1847), about an Acadian girl separated from her beloved when the British expelled the Acadians from Nova Scotia, who searches for him across America for the rest of her life. It is often shortened to Eva or Evie. Name lists give "bearer of good news", which matches the Greek.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), Greek Dictionary of the New Testament, G2098 · entry euaggelion (εὐαγγέλιον) · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Strong's G2098, euaggelion (biblehub.com) · Wikipedia, Evangeline

Famous namesakes

• Evangeline, heroine of Longfellow's poem

Popularity abroad

• #147 United States, girls 2025 (up 26 from 173 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #346 England and Wales, girls 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

Spellings

Evangeline · Evangelina · Evangelia

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