Eva
Eva is ranked 120th among girls in 2024 (2,296 births). Its best rank was 31st, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- #120down 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,2960.14% of girls
- Peak year
- 19184,563 births
- Best rank
- #31in 1889
- Since 1880
- 283,587people given the name
The story in the numbers
282,580 girls have been named Eva in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 4,563 births — 0.39% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 83 → 120).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 67 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,007 boys have also been given it, 0.36% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Eva | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9,800 | |
| 1890s | 16,460 | |
| 1900s | 18,357 | |
| 1910s | 34,909 | |
| 1920s | 38,048 | |
| 1930s | 22,797 | |
| 1940s | 17,561 | |
| 1950s | 17,114 | |
| 1960s | 13,591 | |
| 1970s | 8,596 | |
| 1980s | 7,820 | |
| 1990s | 8,002 | |
| 2000s | 21,352 | |
| 2010s | 35,209 | |
| 2020s | 12,964 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Eva was the 55th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Eva
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zellapeak 1917
- Wilhelminapeak 1916
- Evalenapeak 1921
- Winniepeak 2024
- Arapeak 2022
- Lavinapeak 1920
- Annapeak 1918
- Onapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.