Meaning & Origin
A female given name originating as a coinage.
Evangelina is a girl's baby name of Greek origin, an elaborated form of Evangeline, from the Greek euangelion, meaning 'good news, Gospel' — the same root as the word 'evangelical.'
The -ina ending gives this already beautiful name an additional flourish of Latin elegance. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline — the epic story of an Acadian girl's search for her lost beloved — gave the name its romantic, literary American pedigree. Evangelina extends that beauty further into something truly grand.