Evangeline comes from the Greek euangelion (εὐαγγέλιον) — eu (good) + angelos (messenger) — meaning "good news" or "gospel." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 epic poem Evangeline, about an Acadian heroine separated from her love during the British expulsion of French settlers from Acadia (Nova Scotia), gave the name international fame.
Evangeline entered the U.S. top 1000 in 1880, faded, and has returned dramatically in the 2010s and 2020s. Today it sits in the U.S. top 200 and is climbing fast.
Evangeline 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 Evangeline reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.