Eva is a female given name, the Latinate counterpart of English Eve, derived from a Hebrew name meaning "life" or "living one." 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 of the Spanish name "Eva", most often referring to María Eva Duarte de Perón.
During the 1990 United States Census, approximately 0.159 percent of females counted had the first name Eva. The popularity of the name Eva has been consistently in the top 300s, according to the Social Security Administration website. Popularity peaked in 1989 when the name hit No. 31. It began to dip, gradually falling into top 300s, until the turn of the 20th to the 21st century, when the frequency of the name Eva began to rise. As of 2006, it sat at No. 124.
In England and Wales, Eva was reasonably popular around 1900, but it has been little used since, Eve and Evie being the more popular forms today. The name is traditionally more popular in Ireland and Scotland, as an anglicisation of the Gaelic Aoife, meaning "shining" or "radiant". The name is often mistaken as Eve.
The name is popular in continental Europe (particularly in Northern Europe after the Reformation). The Hebrew equivalent of Eva is חוה (Ḥawwah, often anglicized as Chava), meaning "life". The name Eva is often changed to 'Eve'.
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912–1954), German astronomer
Eva Almos, Canadian actress, famous for voicing Friend Bear and Swift Heart Rabbit in the first generation of the Care Bears series and villainess Donita Donata in Wild Kratts
Eva Amaral (born 1973), Spanish singer
Eva Amurri (born 1985), American actress
Eva Angelina (born 1985), American adult film actress
Eva Asderaki (born 1982), Greek tennis chair umpire
Eva Avila (born 1987), 2006 Canadian Idol winner
Eva Beem (1932–1944), Dutch Jewish child; gassed to death in Auschwitz concentration camp
Eva Bowring (1892–1985), U.S. politician and United States Senator
Eva Boto (born 1995), Slovenian singer
Eva Braun (1912–1945), lover, and later wife, of Adolf Hitler
Eva Burrows (1929–2015), 13th General of The Salvation Army
Eva LaRue Callahan, American actress
Eva Cassidy (1963–1996), American singer
Eva Celbová (born 1975), Czech beach volleyball player
Eva Christodoulou (born 1983), Greek gymnast
Eva M. Clayton (born 1934), U.S. politician and United States Congresswoman
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 Ekeblad (1724–1786), Swedish botanist
Eva Gabor (1919–1995), Hungarian-born actress
Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926), Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist
Eva Gray (born 1971), British actress
Eva Green (born 1980), French actress
Eva Herzigová (born 1973), Czech supermodel
Eva Hesse (1936–1970), artist
Eva Jinek (born 1978), American-born Dutch journalist and television presenter
Eva Kaili (born 1978), Greek politician
Eva Köhler (born 1947), wife of the German President Horst Köhler
Eva Kotamanidou (born 1936), Greek actress
Little Eva (1943–2003), American singer
Eva Longoria (born 1975), American actress
Eva Magni (1909–2005), Italian stage and film actress
Eva Maler (born 1988), German playwright
Eva Marie Saint (born 1924), American actress
Eva Mendes (born 1974), American actress
Eva Merthen (1723–1811), known as "The Duchess of Finland"
Eva Moll (born 1975), German contemporary artist
Eva Moore (1870–1955), British actress
Eva Morris (1885–2000), native of England, known for a time as the oldest recognized person in the world
Eva Moskowitz, U.S. educator and former politician
Eva, birth name of Hatice Muazzez, mother of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed II
Eva Nedinkovska (born 1983), ethnic Macedonian singer
Eva Pagels (born 1954), German field hockey player
Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), American choreographer and art historian
Eva Pawlik (1927–1983), Austrian figure skater
Eva Perón (1919–1952), President of Argentina, Argentinian First Lady, political leader, actor, and philanthropist; wife of Juan Perón
Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist
Eva Pigford, American model
Eva Popiel (born 1982), Japanese-British actress in South Korea
Eva Püssa (born 1971), Estonian actress
Eva Riccobono (born 1983), Italian model
Eva Silverstein (born 1970), American physicist and string theorist
Eva Simons (born 1984), Dutch singer
Eva Tanguay (1878–1947), Canadian-born vaudeville entertainer
Eva, Marco's mom from the Animorphs book series.
Little Eva, a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
Eva Kant, character from Diabolik comics and Danger: Diabolik movie
Eva Wei, the main character of the animated series Oban Star Racers
EVA (Metal Gear), character in the video games Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Evangeline A.K. McDowell, a character from the manga and anime series Negima
Eva, the Goddess of Water in the mythology of the MMORPG Lineage II
Eva, a character on the television series Total Drama Island
Eva, a character in the film Igor
Eva Ushiromiya, a character in the visual novel, manga and anime series Umineko When They Cry
Eva, a character in The Zimmer Twins
Eva, a female keel-billed toucan who is Rafael's wife in Rio and Rio 2
Eva Luna, main character of Isabel Allende's picaresque novel
