Eves
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/iːvz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eves is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London. see Eaves .
- AUAustralia≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 49K
- CACanada≈1 in 80K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): London. see Eaves .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eves 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Eves | 3 |
| US United States | 1,506 | 1 in 221K | 1.5K | Eves | 250 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Eves | 143 |
| AU Australia | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Eves | 105 |
| CA Canada | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Eves | 79 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Eves | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Eves | 45 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Eves 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 lld, plural of eva
as a wordkaikki.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)
- Reginald Grenville Evesb. 1876GBBritish painter (1876-1941)
- Howard Evesb. 1911USAmerican mathematician (1911–2004)
- Donald Smith Evesb. 1911botanist
- John Evesb. 1922GBEnglish footballer (1922-2007)
- Ernie Evesb. 1946CACanadian politician
- Mel Evesb. 1956GBEnglish footballer (born 1956)
- Derral Evesb. 1974USAmerican television producer
- Mark Evesb. 1977USAmerican politician
- Chris Evesb. 1987NZRugby Union player
- Braden Evesb. 1999USAmerican racing driver
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,449 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,393 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Eves mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): London. see Eaves . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Eves?
- A machine transcription gives /iːvz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Eves have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Eves in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eves.
- How common is the name Eves?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,506 people named Eves in 2010, about 1 in 221 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/evesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Eves”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.