Eva (name)
Eva is a female given name, the Latinate counterpart of English Eve, derived from a Hebrew name meaning "life" or "living one". It can also mean full of life or mother of life. It is the standard biblical form of Eve in many European languages.
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin, Hebrew |
| Meaning | "life" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Eve, Ieva, Evita |
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Evita is a diminutive form of the Spanish name "Eva", most often referring to María Eva Duarte de Perón.
Popularity
Popularity in the United States peaked in 1989, when the name hit No. 31. Afterwards, use in the United States fell into the top 300s, eventually rising in frequency again in the 2000s. As of 2006, it sat at No. 124.[1]
In England and Wales, Eva was reasonably popular around 1900, but it has been little used since, Eve and Evie being the more popular forms today. The name is traditionally more popular in Ireland and Scotland, as an anglicisation of the Gaelic Aoife, meaning "shining" or "radiant".
The name is popular in continental Europe (particularly in Northern Europe after the Reformation). The Hebrew equivalent of Eva is חוה (Ḥawwah, often anglicized as Chava), meaning "life".
People
A - F
- Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912–1954), German astronomer
- Eva Amaral (born 1973), Spanish singer
- Eva Amurri (born 1985), American actress
- Eva Andén (1886–1970), Swedish lawyer
- Eva Angelina (born 1985), American adult film actress
- Eva Asderaki (born 1982), Greek tennis chair umpire
- Eva Avila (born 1987), 2006 Canadian Idol winner
- Eva Alordiah (born 1988), Nigerian Rapper and Writer
- Eva Beem (1932–1944), Dutch Jewish child; gassed to death in Auschwitz concentration camp
- Eva Blanco (1981-1997), Spanish murder victim
- Eva Bowring (1892–1985), U.S. politician and United States Senator
- Eva Boto (born 1995), Slovenian singer
- Eva Braun (1912–1945), lover, and later wife, of Adolf Hitler
- Eva Burrows (1929–2015), 13th General of The Salvation Army
- Eva Cadena, Mexican politician from Veracruz
- Eva Carneiro, Gibraltar-born British sports medicine specialist and former first-team doctor at Chelsea F.C.
- Eva Cassidy (1963–1996), American singer
- Eva Celbová (born 1975), Czech beach volleyball player
- Eva Christodoulou (born 1983), Greek gymnast
- Eva Clayton (born 1934), U.S. politician and United States Congresswoman
- Eva Cruz (born 1974), Puerto Rican volleyball player
- Eva Czemerys (1940–1996), German-born film actress
- Eva Dahlgren (born 1960), Swedish pop musician
- Eva Dickson (1905–1938), Swedish explorer
- Eva Dimas (born 1973), Salvadoran weightlifter
- Eva Craig Graves Doughty (1852–?), American journalist
- Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), Swedish botanist
- Eva Elfie, pornographic actress
- Eva Fabian (born 1993), American-Israeli world champion swimmer
G - L
- Eva Gabor (1919–1995), Hungarian-born American actress
- Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926), Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist
- Eva Gothlin (1957–2006), Swedish historian
- Eva Gray (born 1971), British actress
- Eva Green (born 1980), French actress
- Eva Kinney Griffith (1852–1918), American journalist, activist, novelist, editor, publisher
- Eva Herman (born 1958), German television presenter and author
- Eva Herzigová (born 1973), Czech supermodel
- Eva Hesse (1936–1970), German-born American artist
- Eva Jinek (born 1978), American-born Dutch journalist and television presenter
- Eva Kaili (born 1978), Greek politician
- Eva-Lotta Kiibus (born 2003), Estonian figure skater
- Eva Köhler (born 1947), wife of the German President Horst Köhler
- Eva Kotamanidou (born 1936), Greek actress
- Eva LaRue (born 1966), American actress
- Little Eva (1943–2003), American singer
- Eva Longoria (born 1975), American actress
M - P
- Eva Anne Madden (1863–1958), American educator, journalist, playwright, author
- Eva Magni (1909–2005), Italian stage and film actress
- Eva Maler (born 1988), German playwright
- Eva Marie Saint (born 1924), American actress
- Eva Mendes (born 1974), American actress
- Eva Merthen (1723–1811), known as "The Duchess of Finland"
- Eva Miranda, Spanish mathematician
- Eva Moll (born 1975), German contemporary artist
- Eva Moltesen (1871–1934), Finnish-Danish writer and peace activist
- Eva Moore (1870–1955), English actress
- Eva Morris (1885–2000), native of England, known for a time as the oldest recognized person in the world
- Eva Moskowitz (born 1964), U.S. educator and former politician
- Eva, birth name of Hatice Muazzez, mother of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed II
- Eva Neander (1921–1950), Swedish journalist
- Eva Nedinkovska (born 1983), ethnic Macedonian singer
- Eva Pagels (born 1954), German field hockey player
- Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), American choreographer and art historian
- Eva Pawlik (1927–1983), Austrian figure skater
- Eva Perón (1919–1952), Argentinian First Lady, political leader, actor, and philanthropist; wife of Juan Perón
- Eva Haljecka Petković (1870–1947), Serbian doctor
- Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist
- Eva Pigford (born 1984), American model
- Eva Popiel (born 1982), Japanese-British actress in South Korea
- Eva Püssa (born 1971), Estonian actress
S - Z
- Eva Silverstein (born 1970), American physicist and string theorist
- Eva Simons (born 1984), Dutch singer
- Eva Munson Smith (1843–1915), American composer, poet, author
- Eva Tanguay (1878–1947), Canadian-born vaudeville entertainer
- Eva Griffith Thompson (1842–1925), American newspaper editor
Fictional characters
- Eva, Marco's mom from the Animorphs book series.
- Eva Kant, character from Diabolik comics and Danger: Diabolik movie
- Eva Wei, the main character of the animated series Oban Star Racers
- EVA (Metal Gear), character in the video games Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Eva, the Goddess of Water in the mythology of the MMORPG Lineage II
- Eva, a character in the television series Total Drama
- Eva, a character in the film Igor
- Eva Ushiromiya, a character in the visual novel, manga and anime series Umineko When They Cry
- Eva, a character in The Zimmer Twins
- Eva, a female keel-billed toucan who is Rafael's wife in Rio and Rio 2
- Eva Luna, main character of Isabel Allende's picaresque novel
- Eva Kviig Mohn, a main character in the Norwegian TV show Skam
- Eva Strong, a character in the UK TV series Hollyoaks
- Eva Falco, a character in the UK TV series Hollyoaks
- Eva, one of the main characters in the anime series Tweeny Witches
- Evangeline St. Clare, called Eva, a major character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Eva, one of the main characters in "What's Left of Me" by Kat Zhang. It is told from Eva's perspective.
- Eva, a CPU Mii from Wii Sports & Wii Sports Resort
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Eva
- Eve (name)
- Evita (disambiguation)
References
- The Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World (1984), by Bruce Lansky
- Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names
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