About the name Evander
Evander belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Evander first appears in Social Security records in 1888. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #761 in 2021, and in 2024 327 babies received the name — 3,808 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.