How to pronounce Evangeline- Leen or Line ??

[marissalou]

I knew a girl with this name, and everyone called her Evange "lynn"

[libbyj06]

I've heard of the name before, I just have never heard it pronounced by anyone and Leen, line and lyn are all possibilities it seems. Thanks for the information everyone!

[flick]

I also pronounce it -leen and I am American.

[kala_way]

-leen. -line sounds strange.

[lineska]

I say -leen for Evangeline and -line for Caroline/Madeline.

[ashthedreamer]

I say -leen, too. I think the first few times I saw Evangeline, I said it with the -line ending, same with Emmeline, but with Evangeline Lilly still being fairly well known, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Evangeline, and the Evangeline in The Princess and the Frog, all pronounced with the -leen ending, as far as I know, I would think that the -leen ending would be used much more often (if not almost exclusively).

[holbs]

-leen here too

[tressa]

I don't know who Evangeline Lilly is. I would give the credit to The Princess & the Frog

It maybe new to the rest of the country but Evangeline "ee-van-juh-leen" is a very old and well known name in the South thanks to a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written in the 1800s

ah interesting. I think I've seen every Disney movie expect Princess and the Frog. I keep falling asleep after she turns into a frog haha.
Evangeline Lilly played Kate on Lost (which I'm suddenly super into, about 8 years too late)

[hayley88]

-leen
I'm from the UK and have known Carolines' but it never crossed my mind to pronounce Evangeline in the same way. It just sounds wrong!

[catheyc]

I pronounce it with a "lynn" sound at the end.

Ditto. Although I've heard it pronounced both of -leen and -line as well.