Gender: Feminine
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: “life.”
Eng (EEV); (EE-vuh); Germ/Sp/Pol (EV-ah)
The name is borne in the Bible and in the Quran by the first woman created by God. She and her husband were expelled from the Garden of Eden after eating from the Tree of Knowledge.
The name is believed to be derived from the Hebrew roots חַוָּה, Ḥavvāh, from the Hebrew root ḥāyâ meaning “life” and the Semitic element, ḥyw “to live.” Both the Hebrew word chavah meaning “to live” and chayah meaning “to breath” share the same root.
Despite Eve’s fall from Grace in the Bible, the name was always in usage among Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities. In England, its usage can be traced back to the 12th-century. Its Latinate form of Eva, has always been a classic in continental Europe, especially in Germany, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
As of 2010, Eva was the most popular female name in the Faroe Islanda and in Slovenia. Eve, Eva and all her various forms’ rankings in other countries are as follows:
- # 3 (Iceland, 2010)
- # 4 (French-speaking, Switzerland, 2010)
- # 5 (Netherlands, 2010)
- # 7 (Ieva, Lithuania, 2010)
- # 10 (Armenia, 2010)
- # 10 (Evie, England/Wales, 2010)
- # 14 (Northern Ireland, 2010)
- # 15 (France, 2009)
- # 17 (Scotland, 2010)
- # 20 (Belgium, 2009)
- # 24 (New Zealand, 2010)
- # 26 (Australia, NSW, 2010)
- # 29 (Croatia, 2010)
- # 31 (Evie, Scotland, 2010)
- # 33 (Evie, Australia, NSW, 2010)
- # 37 (England/Wales, 2010)
- # 44 (Eevi, Finland among Finnish-speakers, 2010)
- # 44 (Ireland, 2010)
- # 46 (Austria, 2010)
- # 47 (Canada, BC, 2010)
- # 48 (Spain, 2010)
- # 55 (Catalonia, 2010)
- # 55 (Éabha, Ireland, 2010)
- # 56 (Eve, Northern Ireland, 2010)
- # 59 (Eve, Ireland, 2010)
- # 86 (Norway, 2010)
- # 91 (United States, 2010)
- # 92 (Eve, England/Wales, 2010)
- # 99 (Eve, Australia, NSW, 2010)
- # 201 (Eve, France, 2009)
- # 589 (Eve, United States, 2010)
- # 705 (Evie, United States, 2010)
Other forms of the name include:
- Eva Ева ევა
(Afrikaans/Albanian/Armenian/Basque/Belarusian/Bosnian/Catalan/Croatian/Czech/Dutch/Faroese/French/Frisian/Galician/Georgian/German/Icelandic/Italian/Portuguese/Romansch/Spanish/Scandinavian) - Evis (Albanian)
- Mahalet/Mahlet (Amharic)
- Hawa حواء Хауа (Arabic)
- Yeva (Armenian)
- Həvva (Azeri)
- Yeva Ева Эва (Belarusian/Russian/Ukrainian)
- Yevga Евга (Belarusian)
- Hava (Bosnian)
- Evy (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish: initially a diminutive form, occasionally used as an independent given name)
- Eveke (Dutch: initially a diminutive form, used as an independent given name, EV-eh-ke)
- Eve (English/Estonian/Walon)
- Evie (English)
- Hawat/Hewa (Egyptian/Coptic)
- Eeva (Estonian/Finnish)
- Eevi (Estonian/Finnish)
- Evi (Estonian)
- Ivi/Iivi (Estonian)
- Iivika (Estonian)
- Ève (French)
- Eefje, Eefke (Frisian)
- Hawwa ሕይዋን (Ge-ez)
- Eua Ευα (Greek)
- Chava חַוָה (Hebrew: Modern: KHAH-vah, gutteral CH sound)
- Éva (Hungarian: AY-vaw, diminutive form is Évike)
- Hawa (Indonesian/Malayalam)
- Éabha (Irish-Gaelic)
- Ieva (Latvian/Lithuanian: YEH-vah)
- Evuzus (Malaysian)
- Aaue (Manx)
- Èva (Occitanian)
- Ewa (Polish: EH-vah, diminutive forms are Ewka, Ewunia and Ewusia)
- Evá (Sami)
- Evelia (Spanish)
- Evita (Spanish)
- Eba (Tagalog)
- Havva (Turkish)
- Efa (Welsh)
Italian masculine form is Evo.
Traditionally, in most European countries, the name-day for Adam and Eve is December 24.
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Its feminine form of Theodora was very popular in Byzantium, it was borne by at least five Byzantine Empresses including Empress Theodora who is also revered as a saint.
Origin: Arabic أمن