Eva
Eva places #134 across the country in 2025, and it is easing off its peak. The peak was 1918, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Eva carries
Eva’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Eva, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Eva since 1880
Eva peaked in 1918 at #55; #134 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Eva is most common
The state that gives Eva most often, per girls born there, is District of Columbia (0.54% in 2025); Maine and Alaska are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Eva
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Mary
#125 in 2025 · Hebrew
Anna
#107 in 2025 · Hebrew
Miriam
#246 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ruth
#173 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josephine
#53 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ezra
#20 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jack
#15 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jordan
#131 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with E · Hebrew names · all names
About Eva
How popular is the name Eva?
Eva places #134 across the country in 2025, and it is easing off its peak. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Eva mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “life”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Eva?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Mary sits closest, with Anna and Miriam just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Eva’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
Make the kitThe book is in the works
A printed picture book where Eva earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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