Eva

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Eva boys named Eva

By the numbers

Total US births

285,768

Estimated living today

137,000

Median age today

23

Peak year

1918

Best rank

55th

Rank in 2025

134th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

284,761 / 1,007

How old the living Evas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 285,768 babies given the name since 1880, about 137,000 are alive — 48 in every hundred. Roughly 56,000 of them are children and 31,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin, ultimately from Hebrew

The (Vulgate) Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα, from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה. A Latinate variant of the English Eve.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Evas

• Eva Perón (1919–1952)Argentine actress and politician
• Eva Braun (1912–1945)photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler
• Eva Green (born 1980)French actress
• Eva Longoria (born 1975)American actress and producer
• Eva Mendes (born 1974)American actress and model
• Eva Marie Saint (born 1924)American actress
• Eva Gabor (1919–1995)Hungarian-American actress and socialite
• Eva Herzigová (born 1973)Czech model and actress

People named Eva with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Eva is most common

• TX22,265
• CA21,436
• NY14,284
• PA10,905
• NC9,353
• GA9,112
• IL9,076
• FL8,059
• OH7,958
• VA6,919

Relative to how many babies each state records, Eva is most concentrated in New Mexico (1.7×), West Virginia (1.6×), Mississippi (1.6×), South Carolina (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1918

The most popular girls’ names the year Eva peaked:

• Mary
• Helen
• Dorothy
• Margaret
• Ruth
• Mildred

All the names of 1918

Eva elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Eva: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Eva is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.63% of children were given it – 92 of them.

Eva: rank by region

In 2025, Eva was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.

In 2024, Eva was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.

In 2025, Eva was given 2 times or more in 14 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Eva appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (9th), Province of Namur (9th), Province of Luxembourg (10th), Province of Liège (11th), Province of Hainaut (12th), Province of Flemish Brabant (16th), Province of Walloon Brabant (21st), Province of Antwerp (32nd), Province of Limburg (34th), Province of East Flanders (86th) and Province of West Flanders (120th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Eva by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Eva among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Eva lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 83,289 women called Eva were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Evan
• Evangeline
• Evangelina
• Evalyn
• Evans
• Evander
• Evalynn
• Evalina
• Evaristo
• Evaline
• Evalena
• Evalee

Eva against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Eva vs Evan
• Eva vs Evangeline
• Eva vs Evangelina
• Eva vs Evalyn
• Eva vs Evans
• Eva vs Evander

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