Eva
Top 1000
About Eva
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.
Pronounced AY-vuh.
As of October 2026, Eva ranked #134 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #31 in 1889, Nameberry popularity #129.
Editor's take: The name Eva is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #83 | 3,686 | 2,063.4 |
| 2015 | #76 | 3,771 | 2,112.5 |
| 2016 | #74 | 3,812 | 2,151.2 |
| 2017 | #73 | 3,642 | 2,109.5 |
| 2018 | #75 | 3,569 | 2,098.1 |
| 2019 | #86 | 3,178 | 1,893.5 |
| 2020 | #93 | 2,845 | 1,759.9 |
| 2021 | #93 | 2,835 | 1,727.8 |
| 2022 | #108 | 2,575 | 1,570 |
| 2023 | #112 | 2,413 | 1,503.8 |
| 2024 | #120 | 2,296 | 1,417.1 |
| 2025 | #134 | 2,154 | 1,340.2 |
World rankings
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Eva on lists
Famous Evas
- 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