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Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Latin form of the Hebrew name חַוָּה (Chavva)
1a) Hebrew chavvā = 'living, alive' [1]
1b) Hebrew chavvá = 'giving life' [2] [3] [4]
1c) Hebrew havvah = 'giving life' [5] [3] [4] [6]
1d) Hebrew chavvah = 'life, giving life, mother of all life' [7] [8]
1e) Hebrew chawwa = 'lively' [9]
1f) Hebrew hayya = 'living' or 'animal' [10]
1g) Hebrew חוה (chawah) = 'to breathe' [11]
1h) Hebrew חיה (chayah) = 'to live' [11]
1i) Hebrew chajjah = 'living, alive' [12]
1j) Hebrew chaj = 'living, alive' [13]
2) Short form of Germanic names beginning with Ev(er)- (see JOR) [8]
3) Short form of Names beginning with Eva-, Eve- [14]
Related Names
See also Hava, Ieva, Evar, Evita, Evy
Male
Evuson
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Female
Evudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see EVA (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Eva
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Genitive: |
Evas
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Eva
|
Accusative: |
Evu
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Dative: |
Evu
|
Genitive: |
Evu
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Eva
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Genitive: |
Evan
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Partitive: |
Evaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Eva
|
Accusative: |
Evu
|
Dative: |
Evu
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Genitive: |
Evu
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Eva
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Genitive: |
Evas
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Eva
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Genitive: |
Evas
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Name Days
Faroe Islands
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24 December
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Norway
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24 December
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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24 December
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Sweden
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24 December
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Bible
- In the Old Testament, Eva is the name of the first woman. She and the first man Adam had three sons: Kain, Abel and Set
Namesakes
- Eva Ekeblad (née de la Gardie; 10 July 1724 – 15 May 1786), Swedish countess, salon hostess, agronomist and scientist
- Eva Margareta Brylla (née Lindvall, 1 March 1944 - 27 March 2015), Swedish onomast
- Eva Becker Madsen (born 10 June 1944), Danish musician and actress
- Eva Charlotte Dahlgren-Attling (née Dahlgren, born 9 June 1960), Swedish singer
Trivia
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[19] |
|
79367 |
188665 |
79365 |
188657 |
2 |
8 |
Denmark[20] |
|
14879 |
n.a. |
14878 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Finland[21] |
|
n.a. |
12471 |
n.a. |
12471 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[22] |
|
1357 |
2197 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[23] |
|
122 |
415 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[24] |
|
19023 |
n.a. |
19023 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [19][20][24][21]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [25]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Eva (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ E. G. Withycombe: The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names (1977)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Mike Campbell: Behind the name http://www.behindthename.com
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2023).
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables