# Eve (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/eve/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /iːv/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29,510 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 29,510 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 15,079, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Middle English Eve, Eue, from Old English Ēua, Ēfe, from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 532 | 548 |
| 2012 | 530 | 556 |
| 2013 | 615 | 489 |
| 2014 | 695 | 461 |
| 2015 | 680 | 473 |
| 2016 | 703 | 458 |
| 2017 | 732 | 436 |
| 2018 | 723 | 441 |
| 2019 | 650 | 486 |
| 2020 | 652 | 470 |
| 2021 | 648 | 485 |
| 2022 | 549 | 555 |
| 2023 | 497 | 599 |
| 2024 | 532 | 567 |
| 2025 | 577 | 519 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 446 | 129 |
| 2012 | 430 | 134 |
| 2013 | 408 | 131 |
| 2014 | 352 | 159 |
| 2015 | 338 | 161 |
| 2016 | 289 | 190 |
| 2017 | 242 | 215 |
| 2018 | 286 | 183 |
| 2019 | 275 | 181 |
| 2020 | 258 | 192 |
| 2021 | 281 | 181 |
| 2022 | 189 | 252 |
| 2023 | 157 | 286 |
| 2024 | 199 | 242 |
| 2025 | 159 | 287 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: حَوَّاء, أِيف
- Armenian: Եվա
- Catalan: Eva
- Chinese: 伊芙, 伊夫
- Czech: Eva
- Danish: Eva
- Dutch: Eva
- Estonian: Eva
- Finnish: Eeva
- French: Ève
- German: Eve, Eva
- Greek: Εύα, Εύη
- Hebrew: חַוָּה
- Hindi: ईव
- Hungarian: Éva
- Icelandic: Eva
- Indonesian: Hava
- Irish: Éabha
- Italian: Eva
- Japanese: イブ, イヴ

## People named Eve

- Eve Arden, American actress (1908–1990)
- Eve, American rapper and actress
- Eve Torres, American professional wrestler and Jiu-Jitsu trainer
- Eve Kivi, Estonian actress (born 1938)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American scholar of queer theory (1950-2009)
- Eve Arnold, American photojournalist (1913–2012)
- Eve Perisset, French association football player
- Eve Best, British actress
- Eve Meyer, American actor and model (1928–1977)
- Eve Gordon, American actress
- Eve Plumb, American actress, painter
- Eve Brent, actress (1929–2011)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.