Evangelina is the Spanish-Italian elaboration of Evangeline — from the Greek euangelion ("good news, gospel"). A top-1000 US baby name through the 20th century in Hispanic communities, rising in the 21st century. Evangelina Cisneros (1877-1970) — Cuban revolutionary; her 1897 escape from a Havana prison, orchestrated by William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal reporter Karl Decker, became one of the most-publicized news events of the late-19th century and helped fuel American public support for the Spanish-American War of 1898. The escape and Hearst's coverage are considered foundational examples of "yellow journalism". Evangelina Elizondo (1929-2017) — Mexican actress and singer; the original Spanish-language voice of Cinderella in the Disney 1950 film's Latin American dub. Evangelina Sosa — Mexican actress (Rosa Salvaje). Evangelina Aronne — Argentine pianist. Evangelina Anderson — Argentine model. The name Evangelina also features prominently in Mexican and Cuban literature alongside its English equivalent Evangeline — the heroine of Longfellow's epic poem about the 1755 Acadian expulsion. Evangelina Salazar — Argentine actress; wife of singer Palito Ortega. The diminutives Eva, Eve, Vangie, and Lina are all derived from Evangelina.
Featured throughout Hispanic literature and 19th-century American journalism.
Evangelina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Evangelina reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.