Evans is a male name and surname of Welsh, and possibly Cornish, origin.
[6] In the Welsh language, the f produces the v sound; Ifan (Ivan) became Evan.
Another school of thought is that ‘Evan’ ( Yvain, Yvainne) is the Latinised Norman-French derivation of ‘Owain’.
In the Welsh language the patronymic "ab Evan" resulted in the anglicized surname "Bevan", which is also common in Wales.
Evans is a popular name in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, United States of America, Canada, and Australia.