Eva

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In Spain it is the 62nd most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as acronym of etilvinilacetato (ethylene-vinyl acetate).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 55(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 601
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

304,926 people

#787 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
457 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 35 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EvaLatin(measured from records)
ΕύαGreek(measured from records)
ЕваCyrillic(measured from records)
ევაGeorgian(measured from records)
ԵվաArmenian(measured from records)

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)

ebr. Chuvva viatA" (etim. Cand). I. - (P3 ; Cand 136). - (C Stef). 2. Evufa f. (Ard). Evufan (Mot) ; Evulian fam, ban. 3. Prob. Evi, -an act. ; Evoescu act.

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Eva is read(measured from records)

Eva is one spelling over 5 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.

  • Spanish33%

    acronym of etilvinilacetato (ethylene-vinyl acetate)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English31%

    Initialism of extravehicular activity.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese5.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Eva in Portuguese.

  • French5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Eva in French.

  • German5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Eva in German.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Eva counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Eva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—304,9261 in 35305K—1
SE Sweden#799185,8801 in 55186KEva73
US United States—161,3251 in 2.1K161KEva457
HU Hungary—151,8891 in 64152K—1
BR Brazil#239146,6581 in 1.4K161KEva149
ES Spain#6283,2891 in 60183KEva241
NO Norway—18,5781 in 29456KEva50
SI Slovenia—9,5491 in 2209.6K—27

304,926 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

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

Eva is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Sweden, Philippines

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Éva, Eua, Ëvä, Êvä, Èva

  • French given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Also written Éva, Evà, Ëva, Èva, Evä

  • German given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Sweden

    Languages: German, English

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

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Éva, Evà, Èva, Ėva, Ev̲a

  • Bangla given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States, Spain

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Odia

    Also written Ibha, ইভা, Iva, Eeva, Éva

  • Hindi given name11 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Éva, Èva, Êvâ, Ëva, ́eva

110 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)

Eva is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, ebr. Chuvva viatA" (etim. Cand). I. - (P3 ; Cand 136). - (C Stef). 2. Evufa f. (Ard). Evufan (Mot) ; Evulian fam, ban. 3. Prob. Evi, -an act. ; Evoescu act.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • In kho, Khoikhoi (South Africa): version of Eve, from Hebrew 'life'.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • Latinate form of Eve, now very popular in its own right. It is also found as an Anglicization of the Gaelic name bAoife.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • 2 Latinate form of the biblical name represented by English )\Eve (see main dictionary).

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

190019201940196019802000Eva Braun, b. 1912Eva Perón, b. 1919Eva Marie Saint, b. 1924Eva Herzigová, b. 1973Eva Longoria, b. 1975Judith Barsi, b. 1978Eva Green, b. 1980Eva Marie, b. 1984Lotta Schelin, b. 1984Eva Amurri, b. 1985
  • Eva Braunb. 1912DEphotographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)
  • Eva Perónb. 1919ARArgentine actress and politician (1919–1952)
  • Eva Marie Saintb. 1924USAmerican actress (born 1924)
  • Eva Herzigováb. 1973CZCzech model and actress (born 1973)
  • Eva Longoriab. 1975USAmerican actress and producer (born 1975)
  • Judith Barsib. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican child actress (1978-1988)
  • Eva Greenb. 1980FRFrench actress
  • Eva Marieb. 1984USAmerican professional wrestler
  • Lotta Schelinb. 1984SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player
  • Eva Amurrib. 1985USAmerican actress

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 158 sources across 77 countries.

Official registers attesting Eva
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—305K#11
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—186K#8
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—161K#312
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020161K#346
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—152K#11
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022147K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—146K#230
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—83K#114
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—82K#62
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202079K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—56K#39
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202519K—

Reference works 7

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Eva come from?
ebr. Chuvva viatA" (etim. Cand). I. - (P3 ; Cand 136). - (C Stef). 2. Evufa f. (Ard). Evufan (Mot) ; Evulian fam, ban. 3. Prob. Evi, -an act. ; Evoescu act. Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
Is Eva a male or female name?
Eva 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 Eva have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 305 thousand people named Eva, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Eva most common?
Eva is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 people carrying it.
What are other forms of the name Eva?
In the etymology graph, Havva, Hava and Eve are forms of the same name in other languages; Evita is a recorded short or pet form.
What does the name Eva mean?
In Spanish, acronym of etilvinilacetato (ethylene-vinyl acetate)
How common is the name Eva?
In Czechia, the national register counted 304,926 people named Eva, about 1 in 35 residents.
How common is Eva compared with other names?
In Spain, Eva is the 62nd most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eva” — the 62nd most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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