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Eva

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland 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

Eeva ♀
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Eewa ♀
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Eevu ♀
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Eevuli ♀
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Efva ♀
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Efwa ♀
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Ehva ♀
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Ehwa ♀
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Eva ♀
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Ewa ♀
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Evá ♀
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Eve ♀
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Eve ♀
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See also Hava, Ieva, Evar, Evita, Evy

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Evuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Evudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see EVA (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Eva
Genitive: Evas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Eva
Accusative: Evu
Dative: Evu
Genitive: Evu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Eva
Genitive: Evan
Partitive: Evaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Eva
Accusative: Evu
Dative: Evu
Genitive: Evu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Eva
Genitive: Evas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Eva
Genitive: Evas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

24 December

Norway Norway

24 December

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

24 December

Sweden Sweden

24 December

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

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[19]
79367 188665 79365 188657 2 8
Denmark Denmark[20]
14879
n.a.
 14878
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Finland Finland[21]
n.a.
 12471
n.a.
 12471 0 0
Iceland Iceland[22]
1357 2197
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[23]
122 415
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Eva (f) Sources: [19][20][24][21]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Eva (f) Sources: [25]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Eva (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Eva (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Eva (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  9. ↑ E. G. Withycombe: The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names (1977)
  10. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Mike Campbell: Behind the name http://www.behindthename.com
  12. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  14. ↑ Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2025).
  15. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  16. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  17. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  22. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  23. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  25. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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