Eva

The (Vulgate) Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā). A Latinate variant of the English Eve.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːvə/
• Rhymes: -iːvə

Eva

1. A female given name from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew.
   • 1951, Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Bantam Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 150:

     "Eve," said Poirot thoughtfully. "The fashions in names change, do they not? Hardly ever, nowadays, do you hear of an Eva. But Eve, it is popular."

   • 2013, Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave, Tinder Press, →ISBN, page 79:

     Mrs Saunders referred to Aoife throughout this talk as 'Eva' and when Gretta corrected her, Mrs Saunders replied that didn't Gretta think it would be better 'for everyone' to use what she termed 'the proper spelling' of the name? If only to give Eva a better chance of learning to write it?

• Eva has been used to anglicize Aoife in Ireland and Scotland.

• Ava, Eve, Evie, Evita, Evy

• ave., ave, AEV, Vea, Ave., EAV, VAE, 'ave, vae, Ave

From Dutch Eva.

Eva

1. Eve (biblical character)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Eve

Eva f

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈeba/ [ˈe.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -eba
• Syllabification: E‧va

Eva f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Eve

From Spanish Eva, from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwah).

Eva

1. a female given name from Hebrew

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Eva.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛva]
• Hyphenation: Eva

Eva f

1. (biblical) Eve
2. a female given name

Eva

1. (biblical) Eve
2. a female given name

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 24 847 females with the given name Eva have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

From Middle Dutch eva, from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔᾱ (Eúā), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.vaː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Eva

Eva f

1. (biblical) Eve (mythological first woman)
2. a female given name

• eva
• evakostuum

• Afrikaans: Eva

• IPA^(key): /ˈeva/
• Rhymes: -eva
• Hyphenation: E‧va

Eva (accusative Evan)

1. (biblical) Eve

Eva

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Eve

• Ave, Eeva, Eevi, Eve, Evelin, Ivi, Ivika

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːva/
• Rhymes: -eːva

Eva f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Eva: Evuson
• daughter of Eva: Evudóttir

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːfa/, (archaic, now usually foreign-influenced) /ˈeːva/

• Audio:

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Eva f (proper noun, genitive Evas or (with an article) Eva, diminutive Evchen n or Evachen n or Evlein n or Evalein n)

1. (biblical) Eve
2. a female given name

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːva/
• Rhymes: -ɛːva
• Homophone: efa

Eva f (proper noun, genitive singular Evu)

1. Eve (biblical character).
2. a female given name

• Adam og Eva

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.va/
• Rhymes: -ɛva
• Hyphenation: È‧va

Eva f

1. (biblical) Eve
2. a female given name

• →? Vietnamese: E-và

• ave

• Heva
• Hava

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὔᾱ (Eúā), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā́). Cognate to have, avē.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛu̯.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.va]

Note: while the vowel is short, the first syllable is heavy due to the glide [w] being always geminate in Ancient Greek. Compare evangelium and peior.

Eva f sg (genitive Evae); first declension

1. Eve

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Eva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Eva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1609. From Latin Eva.

Eva f

1. a female given name

• Ieva
• Evija, Evita

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [2] Population Register of Latvia: Eva was the only given name of 2252 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Eva

1. (biblical) Eve
2. a female given name

• Taken up as a given name in Norway after the Reformation.

• Evelyn, Evy

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 20 018 females with the given name Eva living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

From Old Galician-Portuguese Eva, from Latin Eva, from Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).

• Rhymes: -ɛvɐ
• Hyphenation: E‧va

Eva f (plural Evas)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Eve
2. (biblical) Eve (the first woman)

• →? Vietnamese: E-và

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛva/

Eva f (genitive singular Evy, nominative plural Evy, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name
2. (biblical) Eve

• Evka, Evička
• Evina
• Evuľa, Evuľka
• Evuša, Evuška
• Evča

• “Eva”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Latin Ēva, from Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeba/ [ˈe.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -eba
• Syllabification: E‧va

Eva f

1. (biblical) Eve
   • 1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 3:20:

     Y llamó el hombre el nombre de su mujer, Eva; por cuanto ella era madre de todos los vivientes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a female given name from Latin [in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Eve

• → Tagalog: Eba, Eva

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “borrowed from which language?”) Doublet of Hawa.

Eva

1. (biblical) Eve

   Synonym: Hawa

Latin Eva, from Hebrew. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1472.

• IPA^(key): /²eːva/

• Audio:

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Eva c (genitive Evas)

1. (biblical) Eve
   • 1917 Bibeln, 1 Moseboken 3:20:

     Och mannen gav sin hustru namnet Eva, ty hon blev en moder åt allt levande

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a female given name
   • 2004, Majgull Axelsson, Den jag aldrig var, Prisma, →ISBN, page 258:

     Eva Andersson. Namnet stämde, det var lika anonymt som den färglösa kvinnan på andra sidan skrivbordet, hon som bläddrade i min journal med trubbiga fingrar och sedan såg på mig med rynkad panna.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• The most common first name of women born in Sweden in the 1940s and the 1950s.

• Evelina
• Evy

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 191 834 females with the given name Eva living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Borrowed from Spanish, from Hebrew.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔeva/ [ˈʔɛː.vɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈʔeba/ [ˈʔɛː.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -eva, (with nativization) -eba
• Syllabification: E‧va

Eva (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)

1. alternative spelling of Eba
2. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Eve