Evangeline

Meaning

Evangeline is generally linked to Greek roots for “good” and “messenger” or “good tidings,” the same word-family behind Evangelista and evangel. The excerpts specifically connect it with “the messenger of good tidings,” and one notes that Longfellow appears to have invented the name for his poem, after which it spread in America.

Origin

Fun fact

Its popularity in America was boosted by Longfellow’s poem Evangeline, which helped turn a literary coinage into a real given name.