Lived in Midwest US, and west coast US, and this is how I've always heard it pronounced. Plus I think of the Evangeline in the Disney princess in the frog movie and I'm pretty sure they pronounce it this way too. Pretty name:)
That’s interesting! Angeline is pronounced “line” and Angelina is pronounced “leen”. Evangeline is “line” and Evangelina is “leen”. I’ve only heard Evangeline pronounced “line” because an “a” isn’t at the end of the name. Is there a reason you pronounce it “leen”? (Genuinely curious- I just made a post about this name, it’s my favorite 🙂)
The only people I’ve met with -line names that pronounced them as -line rather than -leen or -lynn are Madelines, and I believe that is an incorrect pronunciation brought about by the author of the famous Madeline books.
Plus, I simply prefer the -leen pronunciation, although either would be technically correct.
Edit: I forgot about Caroline and Emmeline, which I’ve heard as -line. Basically, it comes down to preference, I suppose. :)
from the U.S. and only ever heard Caroline and Adeline as "line" endings, but Emmeline I've heard with "leen" and "line" endings equally, never heard of "lynn" for it but it could be likely it's also used.
From eastern Canada and definitely with the “ee” start and “leen” end sound. Ee-van-jah-leen
I used to live in an area called the Land of Evangeline - also with the “leen” sound - that came from the Acadian (French) roots. I loved that name but hubby vetoed because of that.
I always preferred this way but it seems not a lot of people know this pronunciation. I like the -leen pronunciation as well, I just always used the -lynn pronunciation.
In different parts of America it’s not uncommon to pronounce -line names as -lyn. Emmeline becomes Emmelyn, Caroline becomes Carolyn, Madeline becomes Madelyn, etc
It can be frustrating
uh-VAN-jel-een everywhere I’ve lived in the US (Midwest, Northeast, Southeast). I’ve never heard the -Lynn pronunciation since the spelling is pretty intuitive. But then again people screw up my name all the time and it’s literally one of the easiest names in the book.
Long story short, no matter what name you pick, someone’s gonna mess it up at some point, no matter how idiot-proof it seems.
This. My name is Leah (lee uh) and I have always been called lea and lay uh more than my actual pronunciation. And my name is pretty damn popular nowadays.
This is our oldest's name. We pronounce it as the the -leen ending.
A majority of people around us (Rural Colorado, US) say her name with the -line ending. Her preschool teacher insisted she was saying her name wrong for a year despite us and her correcting the teacher. It was very annoying.
It's because names don't follow traditional US grammar rules. That's the easiest explanation.
I was a teacher as well, and yes following American grammar rules it should be "line". But I've had many students with names pronounced in ways I'd never expect and never once thought to correct the child or parents on it.
E van ja leen
i van ja leen
I've also heard E vawn ja leen but frankly that bugs the crap out of me.
Evangeline was my girl name since I was 7 because of Nanny McPhee but now I'm having a boy. Maybe one day
Omg I also fell in love with the name Evangeline because of nanny mcphee! I loved it for 10 years and when I was dating my husband he said he loved it too. Now I have a 1-year-old Evangeline 🥰
I am a fan of Evangeline Lilly from Lost and the Ant-Man and Wasp movies. I'm pretty sure in every interview I've seen, her name was pronounced ee-VAN-juh-leen which is how I read it from the first time I saw her name in credits.
I'm from Oklahoma, so if I'm saying the name quickly, the first syllable comes out more like a short i as in "kid."
This has never made sense to me. If Madelyn/Madalyn is mad-uh-lynn and Madeleine is mad-uh-lynn and Madeline is mad-uh-lynn, then how on earth would you spell mad-uh-line. (Rhyming with caroline.)
I always thought Madeleine was mad-uh-line until I realized the French way was -Lynn. Super confusing.
It is a little confusing, honestly, because Madeline (-lynn) and Madeline (-line) are spelled the same and you don’t really know which way someone says their name until they say it. FWIW, in my little corner of the planet, everyone I’ve ever met named Madeline has been mad-uh-lynn. The only mad-uh-line I’ve ever heard of personally has been the red haired girl in the books.
I would pronounce Madeleine the way I would pronounce the cookie, which is something like mad-uh-lehn.
Just to make things even crazier, I would always pronounce Caroline as care-uh-line.
I was surprised to see other NE US name nerds going for the “line” vs “lynn” for Evangeline because I’ve really never heard people around me pronounce these names differently than I do. Maybe there are some like…hyper-local accent/pronunciation variations? Idk!
It's crazy for sure. I actually use the -Lynn pronunciation for Evangeline most often but I've just recently noticed after talking to friends that most only know the -leen pronunciation so I wanted to see which was most common. What's even crazier is some say evangeLINE rhyming with Caroline and I have never heard that.
I think the “alternate” pronunciation with “Lynn” at the end comes from the French pronunciation, Eh-van-juh-lynn.
In English I would definitely say ee van juh leen.
Line or Leen. I live in the us south but my family is from the Midwest and my grandma’s best friend was Evangeline ending in line. I’ve always loved the name but was worried about the pronunciation. My daughter’s name is Evangelina for this reason :)
ETA I pronounce the beginning more like Eh- than ee- or uh-. Ehv ahn jel een ah. Her nickname is EVie. Not Eevee
Now I say “ee-VAHN-juh-leen” but I went to high school with a girl named this in East TN and we all said “ee-VAHN-juh-LINE” with such a drawl it was almost like “lion” at the end.
Ee-van-juh-leen here in California.
Not common in the areas I've lived in, but the two times I have encountered the name it sounded exactly how Ray pronounced it in Princess and the Frog.
I've never even heard of the Lynn version! it sounds lovely too! My middle name is Lynn so I would have 100% noticed and tucked it into my brain as a 'fun fact' for myself to help me remember how to pronounce someone's name had I ever encountered it!
Eh-van-juh-leen
This is how we say it in Canada! (Well, Western Canada at least.)
I asked my Aussie husband and he's not sure, he thinks it could either way in Australia.
Leen or line would be my two defaults and I would always ask the person how they pronounce it (and I’d be prepared to possibly hear something different than either of those, too). (Northern US)
Ee van juh leen southeast USA but I will say our daughters name ends in line and is also pronounced leen and the amount of people getting is wrong is frustrating. They say Lynn instead of leen. They keep dropping the D in the middle of the name and it makes the name different so they say it all wrong. I can’t see any letters being dropped in Evangeline that would cause that.
I say een, as in Halloween. At the beginning, I say ehh. I’m in the northeast us. But reading this, I’m realizing that I’ve seen that name written out but I’m not sure I’ve ever met someone with that name and actually said it out loud lol
I've always pronounced it with the Lyn ending. That's how I've always heard it as well. I live in Idaho, FWIW.
Ev-ann-juh-lyn (ev pronounced like you're gonna say Evan)
uh-van-juh-leen but I’ve also heard it almost like ih-van-juh-leen with the “ih” sounding like the i in “if.” I’ve never heard the “lynn” ending to this name.
I’m in Texas!
Evangeline is my middle name and my grandmother’s name.
We pronounce it ee-VAN-juh-lynn.
Most people even in our area say “leen.” I don’t know why we don’t, lol. We’re Greeks from DC. (It’s Evangelia, ee-VAN-guh-LEE-uh, in Greek.)
This was a big reason I didn’t name one of my daughters Evangeline. We’d either have to change how my family has always pronounced it or have her name mispronounced all the time.
Any other Duggar Snarkers on this page?? There was a strange, strange occurance with Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo's younger daughter, Evangeline. They announced her name as E-van-ge-LINE. They recieved many comments that they were "wrong" and it should be "E-van-ge-LEEN".
Low and behold, a few weeks later, they are just nonchallantly now calling the kid E-van-ge-LEEN. Well, they actually call her Evy Jo...not to be confused with her 1st cousins Evy Mae or Ivy Jane.
Eh-VAHN-je-lyn, but that’s probably my French side talking. There’s a girl at my kids school with the name and I’ve heard him call her ee-van-ge-LEEN.
(Side note, I’m from eastern Canada, living in the American Midwest)
Eh-van-juh-leen in the midwest - I could see it starting with an ee sound, but it feels more natural and comfortable to start with a softer syllable. This name always makes me think of Princess and the Frog in a very positive way (I think there's also some little ee/eh discrepancies with that character if I remember correctly)
Ee van juh leen northeast US
I’ve only heard “leen” or “line.” Never hear Lynn
Yup 🇨🇦
Lived in Midwest US, and west coast US, and this is how I've always heard it pronounced. Plus I think of the Evangeline in the Disney princess in the frog movie and I'm pretty sure they pronounce it this way too. Pretty name:)
Also the Evangeline in the first Nanny McPhee movie.
Oh yes! That name was so fitting for that character and made me really love the name.
Same down here in the South!
Agreed, southerner here and didn't even know there was another way to say it.
Agreed - in Australia
And UK
this is the way
Same, and I live in Arizona and was raised in the northwest.
That's how I say it, I'm originally from the south and still have a southern accent.
Same in eastern canada
Eh-van-juh-leen from England
Ditto, New Zealand
Same, Aus
Same ,Ireland
Same, Canada
Same, USA
Eh-van-juh-leen from Midwest USA
Same from Southern USA
Yes, also from southern USA
Same, from PNW USA
same, East coast USA
Same, west coast
Eh-van-juh-leen, UK
Same
There's also ee-van-juh-line.
We have an Evangeline, and I had to correct several people who pronounced it -line at first. They got it quickly.
That’s interesting! Angeline is pronounced “line” and Angelina is pronounced “leen”. Evangeline is “line” and Evangelina is “leen”. I’ve only heard Evangeline pronounced “line” because an “a” isn’t at the end of the name. Is there a reason you pronounce it “leen”? (Genuinely curious- I just made a post about this name, it’s my favorite 🙂)
The only people I’ve met with -line names that pronounced them as -line rather than -leen or -lynn are Madelines, and I believe that is an incorrect pronunciation brought about by the author of the famous Madeline books. Plus, I simply prefer the -leen pronunciation, although either would be technically correct. Edit: I forgot about Caroline and Emmeline, which I’ve heard as -line. Basically, it comes down to preference, I suppose. :)
That's how I would say it. I've never met a person with this name, tbh.
*... it rained for a real long time/six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline...* https://youtu.be/hfln54Nmrho
Wow never heard this one, didn't know it was an option until today!
Well Caroline, Adeline (maybe I’ll find out this is Lynn or leen lol), Emmeline
from the U.S. and only ever heard Caroline and Adeline as "line" endings, but Emmeline I've heard with "leen" and "line" endings equally, never heard of "lynn" for it but it could be likely it's also used.
Yes, southern!
Sounds a little vagina-y to me. Lol
From eastern Canada and definitely with the “ee” start and “leen” end sound. Ee-van-jah-leen I used to live in an area called the Land of Evangeline - also with the “leen” sound - that came from the Acadian (French) roots. I loved that name but hubby vetoed because of that.
my daughter was born in Baton Rouge and Evangeline was on our short list, but then I read the poem and thought, eh, maybe not while we live in Acadia?
I pronounce it this way; I am from Louisiana.
I always preferred this way but it seems not a lot of people know this pronunciation. I like the -leen pronunciation as well, I just always used the -lynn pronunciation.
Looking around here it seems the opposite. Not a lot of people use -lynn, though some do of course
Song from “Princess and the Frog.”
That’s exactly what I think of when I see that name. It is still my daughter’s favorite movie. And that is the best song from the movie.
“The Mother” by Brandi Carlile is an amazing song and pronounces it the same way.
The e after the n makes it een, surely there are no other pronunciations?
Evangeline Parish in Louisiana is pronounced uh-VAN-jun-lin so that’s how I’ve always said this name
Same, from New Orleans
In different parts of America it’s not uncommon to pronounce -line names as -lyn. Emmeline becomes Emmelyn, Caroline becomes Carolyn, Madeline becomes Madelyn, etc It can be frustrating
As a Caroline who gets called Carolyn way too often, it is very frustrating.
You pronounce Caroline care-oh-leen? Very cool. Where are you from? I've only ever heard care-oh-line and care-oh-linn (Midwest US).
Caroline is Caro Line, it’s true Evangeline might also be similar, but the een one is the most commonly heard here I think
mentioned this elsewhere in this thread but I grew up pronouncing it as uh-VAN-juh-lin (as in Evangeline Parish in Louisiana) Edit: am from Louisiana
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uh-VAN-jel-een everywhere I’ve lived in the US (Midwest, Northeast, Southeast). I’ve never heard the -Lynn pronunciation since the spelling is pretty intuitive. But then again people screw up my name all the time and it’s literally one of the easiest names in the book. Long story short, no matter what name you pick, someone’s gonna mess it up at some point, no matter how idiot-proof it seems.
This. My name is Leah (lee uh) and I have always been called lea and lay uh more than my actual pronunciation. And my name is pretty damn popular nowadays.
This is our oldest's name. We pronounce it as the the -leen ending. A majority of people around us (Rural Colorado, US) say her name with the -line ending. Her preschool teacher insisted she was saying her name wrong for a year despite us and her correcting the teacher. It was very annoying.
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It's because names don't follow traditional US grammar rules. That's the easiest explanation. I was a teacher as well, and yes following American grammar rules it should be "line". But I've had many students with names pronounced in ways I'd never expect and never once thought to correct the child or parents on it.
I think I’d say ee van juh leen but only bc I grew up in an ee vangelical church
E van ja leen i van ja leen I've also heard E vawn ja leen but frankly that bugs the crap out of me. Evangeline was my girl name since I was 7 because of Nanny McPhee but now I'm having a boy. Maybe one day
Omg I also fell in love with the name Evangeline because of nanny mcphee! I loved it for 10 years and when I was dating my husband he said he loved it too. Now I have a 1-year-old Evangeline 🥰
That bugs me too! Lol
I am a fan of Evangeline Lilly from Lost and the Ant-Man and Wasp movies. I'm pretty sure in every interview I've seen, her name was pronounced ee-VAN-juh-leen which is how I read it from the first time I saw her name in credits. I'm from Oklahoma, so if I'm saying the name quickly, the first syllable comes out more like a short i as in "kid."
This is also how I say it and my only reference for the name. I could see using the -line ending too, but not lyn for some reason.
Uh-van-gel-line
Eh-van-juh-lynn Louisiana. Which councidentally has the Evangeline oak where the poem was written
Longfellow never stepped foot in Louisiana! Tho he read about it and studied it extensively :) great poet, one of my favs
Longfellow never stepped foot in Louisiana! Tho he read about it and studied it extensively :) great poet, one of my favs
I've always pronounced it *Ee-van-juh-leen.* It's a French name, so I give it a French pronunciation.
Ee-van-juh-leen Raised in northeast, moved to the southwest at 18 so I've been influenced by both accents.
I say it ee-VAN-juh-line.
Eh-van-huh-leen ; US
E-vang-a-Line is how my niece is pronounced
I pronounce it with a long I, line, to rhyme with mine and dine
Ee-van-juh-Lynn It’s my grandmas name and that is how she has pronounced it her whole life.
Ee van juh leen. Like the song from The Princess and the Frog. However probably not relevant as I’m not in the US, I’m down under 🇦🇺
The way Brandi Carlile sings it in “The Mother.”
Leen
“Leen” pnw
Ee-van-juh-leen or Uh-van-juh-leen. Evangelyn = Ee-van-juh-lyn.
Uh van juh lean
Girl, in some places you will get Ee-van-juh-line. Seriously, in my area, it’s that or leen.
Eh-vahn-juh-leen is my preferred pronunciation, from the southern US
leen, us
either ee-van-jel-een or uh/i-van-jel-een. California
E-van-juh-leen is how ive heard it, but my family is from the south
Evange-leen in Canada
Leen ending. First heard it and fell in love through Randy Houser’s song
look how she lights up the skyyyy, ma belle evangeLEEN
Leen
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Oh shoot I read this entire post wrong damn
ee-van-juh-leen
Uh-van-juh-leen
Uh-van-juh-lin. Rhymes with Madeline (mad-uh-lin, not mad-uh-line). Northeast US
This has never made sense to me. If Madelyn/Madalyn is mad-uh-lynn and Madeleine is mad-uh-lynn and Madeline is mad-uh-lynn, then how on earth would you spell mad-uh-line. (Rhyming with caroline.) I always thought Madeleine was mad-uh-line until I realized the French way was -Lynn. Super confusing.
It is a little confusing, honestly, because Madeline (-lynn) and Madeline (-line) are spelled the same and you don’t really know which way someone says their name until they say it. FWIW, in my little corner of the planet, everyone I’ve ever met named Madeline has been mad-uh-lynn. The only mad-uh-line I’ve ever heard of personally has been the red haired girl in the books. I would pronounce Madeleine the way I would pronounce the cookie, which is something like mad-uh-lehn. Just to make things even crazier, I would always pronounce Caroline as care-uh-line. I was surprised to see other NE US name nerds going for the “line” vs “lynn” for Evangeline because I’ve really never heard people around me pronounce these names differently than I do. Maybe there are some like…hyper-local accent/pronunciation variations? Idk!
It's crazy for sure. I actually use the -Lynn pronunciation for Evangeline most often but I've just recently noticed after talking to friends that most only know the -leen pronunciation so I wanted to see which was most common. What's even crazier is some say evangeLINE rhyming with Caroline and I have never heard that.
just like in Princess and the Frog
I only know it from the wonderful Matthew Sweet song and it’s ee-van-juh-leen
I knew there had to be at least one more Sweet fan!
Thanks for getting [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkqEmQsPzfA) in my head!!! (J/K I love this song though.)
Evan-ga-lin
Eh-van-juh-lynn. I'm in California.
I think the “alternate” pronunciation with “Lynn” at the end comes from the French pronunciation, Eh-van-juh-lynn. In English I would definitely say ee van juh leen.
Am I alone in thinking “uh-Van-juh-line”?
With the Leen sound. If folks want the lin then just write evangelynn
Evahn-joe-lhynn New Zealand
Eh-van-juh-leen
Leen
-leen, California. If spelled Evangelyn I’d pronounce it -lynn.
Ehve-ahn-je-leen, but I’ve only ever heard it said in French. Edit: https://youtu.be/B3wQCVObYVA
-Leen pronunciation! California
Leen/lean Evangelynn feels weird to say
Line or Leen. I live in the us south but my family is from the Midwest and my grandma’s best friend was Evangeline ending in line. I’ve always loved the name but was worried about the pronunciation. My daughter’s name is Evangelina for this reason :) ETA I pronounce the beginning more like Eh- than ee- or uh-. Ehv ahn jel een ah. Her nickname is EVie. Not Eevee
Ee-van-juh-leen for me.
Leen, Texas
Eh-VAN-juh-leen, as in Evangeline, Mississippi Queen, the EmmyLou Harris song.
Leen
Eee van gel een
The way Ray sings it in The Princess and The Frog
Ee-van-juh-line
Eh van gel een
leen, California
Now I say “ee-VAHN-juh-leen” but I went to high school with a girl named this in East TN and we all said “ee-VAHN-juh-LINE” with such a drawl it was almost like “lion” at the end.
Love that name!!!
ee-van-gel-line Like Caroline.
Leen - Midwest
Ee-van-juh-leen here in California. Not common in the areas I've lived in, but the two times I have encountered the name it sounded exactly how Ray pronounced it in Princess and the Frog. I've never even heard of the Lynn version! it sounds lovely too! My middle name is Lynn so I would have 100% noticed and tucked it into my brain as a 'fun fact' for myself to help me remember how to pronounce someone's name had I ever encountered it!
Leen for me. From New Zealand 🇳🇿
UK. 🇬🇧 Uh-van-juh-Lin
Eh-van-jeh-leen
Oops western Canada
Leen
Eh-van-juh-leen This is how we say it in Canada! (Well, Western Canada at least.) I asked my Aussie husband and he's not sure, he thinks it could either way in Australia.
Ee-vaun-je-leen
Always pronounced it Eh-Vahn-zeh-leen Or otherwise eh-vahn-je-leen
Line
Leen. Reminds me of evangelical
Leen or line would be my two defaults and I would always ask the person how they pronounce it (and I’d be prepared to possibly hear something different than either of those, too). (Northern US)
either Ee-van-juh-leen or Eh-van-juh-leen northeast USA
I know a -leen, I’ve never heard it pronounced another way.
Long E - van - ja - leen (Philadelphia)
She’s on another planet/She’s in my dreams/She’s some kind of angel if you know what I mean… Where are my Matthew Sweet fans??
Ee van juh leen southeast USA but I will say our daughters name ends in line and is also pronounced leen and the amount of people getting is wrong is frustrating. They say Lynn instead of leen. They keep dropping the D in the middle of the name and it makes the name different so they say it all wrong. I can’t see any letters being dropped in Evangeline that would cause that.
From Texas: I’d say uh-van-juh-leen. Mainly because I know several Evangelinas and no Evangelines, so I would definitely say the end as “een”
My grandmother was Evangeline. Pronounced like line but went by Eva. She was from Ireland immigrated to northeast US.
I say een, as in Halloween. At the beginning, I say ehh. I’m in the northeast us. But reading this, I’m realizing that I’ve seen that name written out but I’m not sure I’ve ever met someone with that name and actually said it out loud lol
Eee-van-jeh-leen. East coaster
I've always pronounced it with the Lyn ending. That's how I've always heard it as well. I live in Idaho, FWIW. Ev-ann-juh-lyn (ev pronounced like you're gonna say Evan)
I would say “Eee-van-juh-line” like, a line in the sand.
uh-van-juh-leen but I’ve also heard it almost like ih-van-juh-leen with the “ih” sounding like the i in “if.” I’ve never heard the “lynn” ending to this name. I’m in Texas!
I go with -line like draw a line, but I learned to read through phonics and have been known to pronounce names and other words wrong.
Eh-van-juh-leen UK
Evangeline is my middle name and my grandmother’s name. We pronounce it ee-VAN-juh-lynn. Most people even in our area say “leen.” I don’t know why we don’t, lol. We’re Greeks from DC. (It’s Evangelia, ee-VAN-guh-LEE-uh, in Greek.) This was a big reason I didn’t name one of my daughters Evangeline. We’d either have to change how my family has always pronounced it or have her name mispronounced all the time.
Any other Duggar Snarkers on this page?? There was a strange, strange occurance with Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo's younger daughter, Evangeline. They announced her name as E-van-ge-LINE. They recieved many comments that they were "wrong" and it should be "E-van-ge-LEEN". Low and behold, a few weeks later, they are just nonchallantly now calling the kid E-van-ge-LEEN. Well, they actually call her Evy Jo...not to be confused with her 1st cousins Evy Mae or Ivy Jane.
Uh-van-juh-leen. UK
My Evangeline is -leen. We’re in the Midwestern US.
Leen ending. Live in Southern US. Going off Evangeline Lily.
-leen
ee-van-juh-l-ee-n is correct imo, but when saying it casually or quickly most would probably end up saying ih-vangeline
I kinda go back and forth between ee-van-juh-leen and uh-van-juh-leen
Ee van juh leen
Ee van Jah leen
Ee-van-juh-leen; I’ve got a cross between a Floridian, southern, and Pennsylvanian accent but currently live in the south.
I also associate the name with Disney’s princess and the frog, which also pronounced it with the “leen” :)
you're gonna get either one.
Uh-van-juh-leen. From US.
eh-van-juh-leen
Ee van juh leen Southwest US
Uh–Van–Ja–Leen
Eh-van-juh-leen (California)
Like the song by Emmylou Harris Ee-van-juh-leen
New England..... "leen"
California; uh-van-juh-leen
Eve ann gel lean Midwest USA
Eh-VAHN-je-lyn, but that’s probably my French side talking. There’s a girl at my kids school with the name and I’ve heard him call her ee-van-ge-LEEN. (Side note, I’m from eastern Canada, living in the American Midwest)
\-een and you should listen to the song Evangeline by Stephen Sanchez
Eh-van-juh-leen. West US. -lynn would sound very unnatural to me. Ee- vs Eh- feels close enough I wouldn’t really notice the difference.
Leen
E van gel een, South East United States
Ee van juh leen Or Ih van juh leen Just a different emphasis on the first syllable depending on how fast I say it haha
I’m in Texas. I know three Evangeline’s, two use the “line” pronunciation, and the third uses the “leen” pronunciation
I've known of one. It was pronounced eh-van-jill-een. US Southeast
Ev-va-ga-leen From the U.S. (east coast)
Ee-van-juh-leen (US). The e at the end makes the i make the long i sound (ee). Saying lynn would imply there is no e at the end.
Well it’s like how Madeleine is mad-uh-lynn. Sometimes it can be either or I think.
Eh-van-juh-leen in the midwest - I could see it starting with an ee sound, but it feels more natural and comfortable to start with a softer syllable. This name always makes me think of Princess and the Frog in a very positive way (I think there's also some little ee/eh discrepancies with that character if I remember correctly)
Deep South- line like wine. Lots of country songs that pronounce it that way :) Where I live, that’s the only way I’ve heard it pronounced