Evance
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Evance is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Malawi it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 2.1K◐
- TZTanzania1 in 4.6K
- MWMalawi1 in 525
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12 ●
- Sources
- 41 ●
- 1 in 566K ◐
across 2 countries
4.6K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #272 | 13,974 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Evance | 35 |
| TZ Tanzania | #312 | 2,852 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Evance | 32 |
| MW Malawi | #40 | 791 | 17 rec. | — | — | Evance | 12 |
| ZM Zambia | #496 | 320 | 5 rec. | — | 2 | Evance | 9 |
| US United States | — | 305 | 428 rec. | — | — | Evance | 41 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 295 | 318 rec. | — | — | Evance | 18 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 41 | 71 rec. | — | — | Evance | 10 |
| PH Philippines | — | 39 | 36 rec. | — | — | Evance | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 32 | 47 rec. | — | — | Evance | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | 20 | 20 rec. | — | — | Evance | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 9 | 0 rec. | 1 in 566K | 9 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | 6 | 9 rec. | — | — | Evance | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili17K88%
- English1.3K6%
- French1411%
- Spanish1181%
- Indonesian1151%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 17,172 | 88% |
| English | 1,254 | 6% |
| French | 141 | 1% |
| Spanish | 118 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 115 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Evance Jennardb. 1908BEBelgian politician (1908-1984)
- Evance Benwellb. 1976CRCosta Rican association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 9 | #9,763 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #155 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #24,425 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #24,827 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 3 | #144 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 2 | #43 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | Antigua & Barbuda ABEC Voter Registration Roll (2026) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 7 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Evance?
- We estimate roughly 12 people bear Evance (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Evance have the most bearers?
- Evance is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled evance.
- How common is Evance compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Evance is the 272nd most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Evance a male or female name?
- Evance is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Evance” — the 272nd most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.