Evita
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sievietes vārds
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 40 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/eβita/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Evita is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 72K
- USUnited States1 in 244K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 506 (inferred from the name graph)
3,720 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sievietes vārds
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Evita 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 3,720 | 1 in 506 | 3.7K | Evita | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Evita | 39 |
| US United States | 1,364 | 1 in 244K | 1.4K | Evita | 151 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,117 | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | Evita | 11 |
| PE Peru | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Evita | 31 |
| FI Finland | 375 | 1 in 15K | 431 | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | 226 | 1 in 9.3K | 242 | — | 2 |
3,720 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Evita is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Diminutif espagnol d’Eva, « vivante ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, in Deutschland seit den i97oer-Jahren vorkommender weibl. Vom., spanische Ko seform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, Evita Perón, argentinische Politikerin
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Pet form of Eva.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Spanish: pet form of EVA . This was the name by which Eva Duarte de Perón (1919–52), wife of the Argentinian dictator Juan Domingo Perón, was affectionately known. Its popularity in the English-speaking world has recentely been increased by the musical based on her life.
as a word
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)- Evitab. 1901MXMexican singer and actress
- Evita Muñoz "Chachita"b. 1936MXMexican actress and comedian (1936-2016)
- Evita Papaspyroub. 1956GRGreek actress
- Evita Ašeradenab. 1974LVLatvian writer (born 1974)
- Dewi Evita Reijsb. 1982NLDutch actress
- Evita Regzab. 1982LVLatvian female curler and coach
- Evita Pozzib. 1984ITItalian pornographic film actress
- Evita Krievāneb. 1987LVLatvian short track speed skater
- Evita Trušeleb. 1990LVLatvian javelin thrower
- Evita Leterb. 1995SRSurinamese swimmer
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)73 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3.7K | #145 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,952 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.1K | #1,202 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 603 | #2,849 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 431 | #1,166 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 375 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 242 | #906 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 226 | #457 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Evita a male or female name?
- Evita is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Norway (SSB) and Finland (DVV), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Evita?
- In the etymology graph, Eve, Ava and Evelia are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Eva.
- How do you pronounce Evita?
- A machine transcription gives /eβita/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Evita?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 3,720 people named Evita, about 1 in 506 residents.
- What does the name Evita mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
- In which country does Evita have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Evita, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled evita.
- Where is Evita most common?
- Evita is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 506 people carrying it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/evitaThe 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, “Evita”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.