Name profile

Eva

Form of Eve used in various languages.

PronunciationSpanish /ˈe.βa/; Italian /ˈɛ.va/; English /ˈiː.və/; German /ˈeː.fa/; Dutch /ˈeː.vaː/; Swedish /ˈeː.va/; Icelandic /ˈɛː.va/; Greek /ˈe.va/; Russian /ˈje.və/; Georgian /ɛ.vɑ/; Latin /ˈe.wa/
Usage languagesArabic, Armenian, Biblical Latin, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Georgian, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Old Church Slavic, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish
US rank (2025)#134

Meaning and history

Éva is a form of Eve used in various languages; it appears in the Latin translation of the New Testament, while Hava is used in the Latin Old Testament. Notable bearers include the Argentine first lady Eva Perón (1919–1952), who inspired the musical Evita, and Little Eva from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), whose real name is Evangeline. It is also an alternate transcription of Russian Ева (see Yeva).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 2,789 births, rank #122
2007: 2,893 births, rank #117
2008: 2,971 births, rank #114
2009: 3,395 births, rank #99
2010: 3,280 births, rank #91
20112011: 3,470 births, rank #83
2012: 3,369 births, rank #86
2013: 3,433 births, rank #88
2014: 3,687 births, rank #83
2015: 3,772 births, rank #76
20162016: 3,814 births, rank #74
2017: 3,642 births, rank #73
2018: 3,569 births, rank #76
2019: 3,180 births, rank #86
2020: 2,847 births, rank #93
20212021: 2,836 births, rank #93
2022: 2,576 births, rank #108
2023: 2,416 births, rank #111
2024: 2,306 births, rank #120
20252025: 2,154 births, rank #134

Eva moved from #120 to #134 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 4,563 births.