Eve
Eve is a girl's name that peaked in 2017, when it was the 436th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 519th. About 25,000 Eves are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Eve
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 29,510
- Estimated living today
- 25,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 436th
- Rank in 2025
- 519th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Eves are
born that year still alive today
Of the 29,510 babies given the name since 1880, about 25,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 Hebrew
From Middle English Eve, Eue, from Old English Ēua, Ēfe, from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα, from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Eves
- Ève Curie (1904–2007)writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie
- Eve Arden (1908–1990)American actress
- Eve Ensler (born 1953)American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist
- Eve (born 1978)American rapper and actress
- Eve Torres (born 1984)American professional wrestler and Jiu-Jitsu trainer
- Eve Kivi (born 1938)Estonian actress
- Eve Hewson (born 1991)Irish actress
- Eve Myles (born 1978)Welsh actress
People named Eve with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Eve is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Eve is most concentrated in Utah (2.5×), New York (2.0×), Massachusetts (1.5×), the District of Columbia (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular girls’ names the year Eve peaked:
Eve elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Eve +2 spellings | 17,230 | 154th |
| England and Wales girls | Eve | 15,079 | 50th |
| Ireland girls | Eve | 3,339 | 45th |
| Scotland girls | Eve | 2,997 | 26th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Eve | 1,091 | 38th |
| Belgium girls | Eve +1 spelling | 653 | 304th |
| Switzerland girls | Eve | 249 | 393rd |
| France boys | Eve | 5 | 1,792nd |
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.
Eve: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Eve | 116 | 0.009% | 408th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Eve | 130 | 0.030% | 138th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Eve | 3 | 0.005% | 112th |
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, Eve is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.04% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Eve: rank by region
In 2025, Eve was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Eve | 264 | 10 |
| Wallonia | Ève | 300 | 9 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Eve appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (178th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Eve by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 11 | 367th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Eve 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Eve | 582 | 719 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Related names
Eve against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.