Evangeline

Variant English Pronunciations: ie-VAN-jə-leen, ie-VAN-jə-lien.

French pronunciation: EH-VAWN-ZHA-LEEN.

I only like the ee-VAN-jah-leen pronunciation.

The English pronunciation i-VAN-jə-lien needs to be added by the Webmaster ASAP.

I never liked this name until recently because I’ve always heard it pronounced “evange-leen” which seems to be the most popular pronunciation. I recently heard it pronounced “Evange-line” (like a straight line) and kinda fell in love with it. I guess I like it both ways, I just prefer the “evange-line” slightly better.

Pronounced: E•vanj•ah•l•eye•n not with "leen" on the end of the name. Not an attractive name, especially with the sound "vanj"... ew. It is criminal to call someone Vangie (pronounced vanjee).

I pronounce this name i-vahn-ja-LEEN.

In Louisiana, where this name is used as a traditional Cajun name, the name is pronounced with the last syllable rhyming with "bin": eh-VAN-jeh-lin. Louisiana has an Evangeline Parish, pronounced that way, and there are several other Louisiana place-names and landmarks with that pronunciation. I met two women with the name Evangeline while I lived in Louisiana, and both of them pronounced the last syllable as -lin.

I pronounce Evangeline as ee-VAN-jah-leen.

The French would probably say "ev-ANZH-el-LEEN".

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This is a lovely name, but it remins me of the Evangelical Church, which I think is terribly misnamed, seeing that "evangelic" means roughly "good messenger"; what that carzy bunch seems to preach is fire and brimstone - "good messenger"? Not a chance. As a gay male, I have little trust and much dislike of these religious psychopaths.

Evangeline can be pronounced Evange-LEEN, Evange-LINE, or Evange-LYNN.