Éva

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Eva in US United States, PL Poland, CZ Czechia and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

How Éva is read●(measured from records)

Éva is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Hungarian84%

  a female given name, equivalent to English Eve or Eva

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French7.9%

  a female given name, a Latinate variant of Ève

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Éva is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

  Also written Eva, Evà, Ëva, Èva, Evä

• German given name27 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Sweden

  Languages: German, English

  Also written Eva, E-Va, Èva, Êva, Ėva

• Spanish given name113 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

  Also written Eva, Εύα, Ευα, Ева, Eua

• a separate name7 spellings in the group

  Also written Evà, Èva, Ėva, Eva, Ev̲a

• Hindi given name11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Eva, Èva, Êvâ, Ëva, ́eva

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Éva is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In rgn, inflection of avér (“to have”):

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Eva Gaborb. 1919HUHungarian-American actress and socialite (1919–1995)
• Éva Székelyb. 1927HUHungarian swimmer (1927–2020)
• Eva Bartokb. 1927HUHungarian-British actress (1927–1998)
• Éva Martonb. 1943HUopera singer
• Éva Tardosb. 1957HUHungarian mathematician
• Éva Hengerb. 1972HUItalian mainstream and pornographic actress with Hungarian roots
• Katalin Novákb. 1977HUnot in their usual namePresident of Hungary from 2022 to 2024
• Vica Kerekesb. 1981SKnot in their usual nameSlovak-Hungarian actress
• Éva Risztovb. 1985HUHungarian swimmer
• Éva Csernoviczkib. 1986HUHungarian judoka

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Éva mean, and where does it come from?

a female given name, equivalent to English Eve or Eva Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Éva a male or female name?

Éva is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does Éva have the most bearers?

In Poland, the national register counted about 470 thousand people named Ewa, more than in any other country we hold.

Where is Éva most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Éva is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 35 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.

How do you pronounce Éva?

A machine transcription gives /eːvɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.

What are other forms of the name Éva?

In the etymology graph, Havva, Hava and Hawa are forms of the same name in other languages; Évike is a recorded short or pet form.

How common is the name Éva?

In Czechia, the national register counted 304,926 people named Éva, about 1 in 35 residents.

How common is Éva compared with other names?

In Poland, Éva is the 595th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.