How Many People Are Named Eva?
people named Eva are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 2,495 people in the US has this name
Based on 285,768 babies named Eva in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
4,575 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Hungarian form of EVE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Eva in English. Counting Eva and these spellings together, about 459,576 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Eva (99.8%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Eva alive today is about 35 years old, and 54% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 62 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Eva first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 4,575 babies. In 2025, 2,154 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Eva never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #31, in 1889, and it was in the top 100 in 67 years between 1880 and 2021. In 2025 it ranked #134.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #134 |
| Best rank | #31 (1889) |
| Years in the top 100 | 67 (1880 to 2021) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #71 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Eva alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Eva were born in California than in any other state: about 18,041 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Eva was given 2 times as often in New Mexico, 1.5 times in Alaska and 1.4 times in Mississippi.
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