Name in Japanese E Evangeline

Evangeline in Japanese

エバンジェリン
Katakana
エバンジェリン
Hiragana
えばんじぇりん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Ebanjerin

This is the established spelling used for Evangeline in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Evangeline sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

E
Ba
N
ジェ Je
Ri
N

Full reading: Ebanjerin

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Why Evangeline is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Evangeline appears as エバンジェリン. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees エバンジェリン and immediately reads it by its sound, Ebanjerin.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Evangeline becomes エバンジェリン rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.