Eva (name)

Eva
GenderFeminine
Origin
Word/nameLatin, Hebrew
Meaninglife
Other names
Related namesEve, Ieva, Evita

Eva is a female given name, the Latinate counterpart of English Eve, which is derived from the Hebrew חַוָּה (Chava/Hava), meaning "life" or "living one", the name of the first woman according to the Hebrew Bible. It can also mean full of life or mother of life. It is the standard biblical form of Eve in many European languages. Evita is a diminutive form, in Spanish.

People

A–F

  • Eva Aariak (born 1955), Canadian politician
  • Eva Adamová (born 1960), Czech volleyball player
  • Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912–1954), German astronomer
  • Eva Ahuja (born 1980), Indian actress
  • Eva Allen Alberti (1856-1938), American dramatics teacher
  • Eva Alordiah (born 1988), Nigerian rapper, entertainer, make-up artist, & fashion designer
  • Eva Amaral (born 1973), Spanish singer
  • Eva Amurri (born 1985), American actress
  • Eva Andén (1886–1970), Swedish lawyer
  • Eva Angelina (born 1985), American adult film actress
  • Eva Arvidsson (born 1948), Swedish politician
  • Eva Asderaki (born 1982), Greek tennis chair umpire
  • Eva Avila (born 1987), 2006 Canadian Idol winner
  • Eva von Bahr (physicist) (1874–1962), Swedish scientist
  • Eva von Bahr (make-up artist) (born 1968), Swedish make-up artist and hair stylist
  • Eva Beem (1932–1944), Dutch Jewish child; gassed to death in Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Eva Bella (born 2002), American voice actress
  • Eva Best (1851–1925), American story writer, poet, music composer, dramatist
  • Eva Blanco (1981-1997), Spanish murder victim
  • Eva Bowring (1892–1985), U.S. politician and United States Senator
  • Eva Boto (born 1995), Slovenian singer
  • Eva Narcissus Boyd (1943–2003), American singer
  • Eva Braun (1912–1945), lover, and later wife, of Adolf Hitler
  • Eva Maria Brown (1856-1917), American social reformer
  • Eva Burrows (1929–2015), 13th General of The Salvation Army
  • Eva Cadena, Mexican politician from Veracruz
  • Eva Callimachi-Catargi (1855–1913), French heiress and subject of two paintings by Henri Fantin-Latour
  • Eva Carneiro, Gibraltar-born British sports medicine specialist and former first-team doctor at Chelsea F.C.
  • Eva Cassidy (1963–1996), American singer
  • Eva Celbová (born 1975), Czech beach volleyball player
  • Eva Christodoulou (born 1983), Greek gymnast
  • Eva Clare (1885–1961), Canadian musician and educator
  • Eva Clarke (born 1945), British-Czech Holocaust survivor
  • Eva Clayton (born 1934), U.S. politician and United States Congresswoman
  • Eva Crocker, Canadian writer
  • Eva Cruz (born 1974), Puerto Rican volleyball player
  • Eva Czemerys (1940–1996), German-born film actress
  • Eva Dahlgren (born 1960), Swedish pop musician
  • Eva Dickson (1905–1938), Swedish explorer
  • Eva Dimas (born 1973), Salvadoran weightlifter
  • Eva Craig Graves Doughty (1852–?), American journalist
  • Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
  • Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), Swedish botanist
  • Eva Fabian (born 1993), American-Israeli world champion swimmer

G–L

M–P

R–Z

Fictional characters

  • Eva, Marco's mother from the Animorphs book series
  • Eva, a character in the 2008 3D computer-animated film Igor
  • EVE, a character in the 2008 Pixar film WALL-E whose name is mispronounced "Eva" by the film's title character
  • Eva, the Goddess of Water in the mythology of the MMORPG Lineage II
  • EVA, character in the Metal Gear video game series
  • Eva, a female keel-billed toucan who is Rafael's wife in Rio and Rio 2
  • Eva, a character in the Canadian animated television series Total Drama
  • Eva, one of the main characters in the anime series Tweeny Witches
  • Eva, protagonist character in What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang
  • Eva Falco, a character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
  • Eva Kant, character from Diabolik comics and Danger: Diabolik film
  • Eva Luna, main character of Isabel Allende's picaresque novel
  • Eva Kviig Mohn, a main character in the Norwegian television series Skam
  • Evangeline St. Clare, called Eva, a major character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Eva Price, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
  • Eva Strong, a character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
  • Eva Ushiromiya, a character in the visual novel, manga and anime series Umineko When They Cry
  • Eva Wei, the main character of the Jetix animated television series Oban Star Racers
  • Eva Zimmer, a character in the webseries The Zimmer Twins
  • Eva Nilsson, character on the series Star Trek: Discovery
  • Eva, mother of twins Dante and Vergil in the Devil May Cry series. Also the wife of Sparda.

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Eva
  • Eve (name)
  • Evita (disambiguation)

References

  • The Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World (1984), by Bruce Lansky
  • Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names
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