Eva

ee-va, eh-va, or ay-va
Latin form of Eve, Hebrew
"life"

Eva Origin and Meaning

The name Eva is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life".

Eva is a simple, classic Hebrew name for girls that recently slipped out of the US Top 100 for the first time in more than a decade. Pronounced either like her more popular sister Ava or less popular sister Eve, Eva is one of the elite group of girl names that mean life.

Eva is found in many different languages as a variation of Eve—the Old Testament name recognizable as the first woman in Abrahamic religions. Short forms of the name include Evie and Evita. The diminutive Evita is still strongly associated with Evita Peron, wife of the Argentine President Juan Peron.

The 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel of the nineteenth century, whose tragic figure Little Eva (short for Evangeline) made an enormous impression on the Victorian reading public, propelled the name to popularity.

Some well known Evas include actresses Evas Marie Saint, Gabor, Green, Longoria and Mendes, sculptor Eva Hesse, singer Little Eva, and model Eva Herzigova

Eva is a highly popular girls’ name throughout the Western World, ranking in the Top 100 of most English-speaking countries along with a wide range of European nations, from Spain and Italy to France and Germany to Scandinavia. This makes Eva one of the most internationally versatile names today.

# 112 in the US

Eva Rank in US Top 1000

# 153 on Nameberry

Eva Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Eva Popularity

Famous People Named Eva

  • Eva "Evita" Perón
    Argentine politician
  • Eva Jacqueline Longoria
    American actress
  • Eva Anna Paula Braun
    wife of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
  • Eva Mendes
    American actress
  • Eva Gabor
    Hungarian,American socialite and actress
  • Eva Hesse
    German,American sculptor
  • Eva Gaelle Green
    French actress and model
  • Eva Marie Saint
    American actress
  • Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner)
    Austrian,British novelist
  • Eva Monica Anna Ekvall (Johnson)
    Venezuelan model and TV presenter
  • Eva Qamaniq Aariak
    Canadian politician, 2nd premier of Nunavut
  • Evangelina "Eva" Simons
    Dutch singer,songwriter
  • Eva Angelina
    American porn actress
  • Eva Barbara Novak
    American silent film actress
  • Eva Helene Nansen
    Swedish operatic mezzo,soprano
  • Eva Novak
    Gerard, Hungarian Olympic swimmer
  • Eva Noblezada
    American Broadway actress
  • Eva Selina Laura Gore
    Booth, Irish poet and suffragist
  • Eva Miriam Hart
    English Titanic survivor
  • Eva Catherine Gardner
    American electric bassist
  • Eva Ionesco
    French actress
  • Eva Cantarella
    Italian classicist
  • Eva Gutowski
    Youtuber behind the channel "MyLifeAsEva"
  • Eva Marcille
    American model and reality TV personality
  • Eva Amurri
    American actress; daughter of actress Susan Sarandon
  • Eva Davies
    daughter of singer Ray Davies of The Kinks
  • Eva Jean Fortney
    daughter of actress Maria Pitillo and David Fortney
  • Eva Giselle Jordan
    daughter of reality TV personalities Stevie J and Mimi Faust ("Love & Hip Hop Atlanta")
  • Eva Luna Westerholt
    daughter of Dutch singer Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation and Robert Westerholt
  • Eva
    Marie Thompson (b. 2009), daughter of sprinters Marion Jones and Obadele Thompson
  • Eva Hollick (b. 2015)
    daughter of actors Michael Hollick and Angela Tsai
  • Eva James Jenner (b. 2015)
    daughter of singer Leah Jenner and Brandon Jenner
  • Eva
    Deia Branson (b. 2015), daughter of model/actress Isabella Calthorpe and Sam Branson; granddaughter of business mogul Richard Branson
  • Eva Maria dos Santos (b. 2017)
    daughter of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, twin of brother Mateo
  • Eva Herzigova (b. 1973) Czech
    Italian Supermodel & actress

Eva in Pop Culture

  • Eva
    main character in Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg"
  • Little Eva
    character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  • Eva Sanchez
    character in "The Purge"
  • Eva
    Marco's mom in the Animorphs book series
  • Eva Kant
    character from the Diabolik series
  • Eva Wei
    main character of the animated series "Oban Star Racers"
  • EVA
    character in the Metal Gear video game series
  • Eva
    character in the Devil May Cry video game series
  • Eva
    the Goddess of Water in the mythology of the MMORPG Lineage II
  • Eva
    character on animated series "Total Drama Island"
  • Eva
    character in the movie "Igor"
  • Eva Ushiromiya
    character in manga and anime "Umineko no Naku Koro ni"
  • Eva
    character in animated series "The Zimmer Twins"
  • Eva
    Rafael's wife in the Rio animated movies
  • Eva Price
    character on British soap "Coronation Street"
  • "Eva
    " song by Nightwish
  • Evelyn "Eva" Leland
    character in Elsie Dinsmore series
  • "Eva
    " 2010 Romanian movie
  • "Eva
    " 2011 Spanish movie
  • Eva Olivier
    main character in 1962 Italian movie "Eva"
  • "Eva
    " 1948 Swedish movie
  • "Eva
    " novel by Peter Dickinson and its main character
  • Eva Sinclair
    character in the series "The Originals"
  • Eva Seiler
    alias for Julie in Code Name Verity
  • Eva Tamsyn
    main character in The Hybrid Chronicles by Kat Zhang
  • Eva Kviig Mohn
    character in the Norwegian TV series "Skam".
  • Eva Mansfield (A.K.A. Amber Horn)
    character in MTV's "Awkward."
  • "Deliver Us from Eva" 2003 romantic comedy film
    named after the character of Evangeline "Eva" Dandrige