Meaning and history
This name comes from the Hebrew חַוָּה (Ḥawwa), derived from חָוָה (ḥawa), meaning “to breathe,” or from the related חָיָה (ḥaya), meaning “to live.” In the Old Testament Book of Genesis, Eve and Adam are the first humans; God creates her from one of Adam’s ribs as his companion, but after the serpent persuades her to eat the forbidden fruit and share it with Adam, they are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Despite this negative association, Christians occasionally used the name in the Middle Ages, and in the English-speaking world both Eve and the Latin form Eva were revived in the 19th century, with Eva becoming more common.
20062006: 491 births, rank #593
2007: 484 births, rank #617
2008: 470 births, rank #654
2009: 521 births, rank #583
2010: 495 births, rank #594
20112011: 532 births, rank #548
2012: 530 births, rank #556
2013: 615 births, rank #489
2014: 695 births, rank #460
2015: 680 births, rank #470
20162016: 703 births, rank #457
2017: 732 births, rank #436
2018: 723 births, rank #441
2019: 650 births, rank #485
2020: 652 births, rank #469
20212021: 648 births, rank #485
2022: 549 births, rank #554
2023: 497 births, rank #599
2024: 532 births, rank #567
20252025: 577 births, rank #519
Eve rose from #567 to #519 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2017, with 732 births.