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Evah

Girl · EE-va · Hebrew

Evah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “living, life”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

What does Evah mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Eva; Latin and European form of Eve

“living, life”

Latin form of Eve, used across Europe; Eva Perón, first lady of Argentina, is a famous bearer.

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EE-va

Meaning borrowed from Eva. More on Wiktionary.

Is Evah a girl's or a boy's name?

Evah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Evah in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2021, with 11 girls.

Half of all the girls named Evah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2010Busiest: 11 in 20212023
Evah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20231#7,582
20226#3,728
202111#2,478
20203#5,734
20194#4,904
20183#5,896
20174#4,967
20169#2,893
20155#4,294
20148#3,031
20135#4,267
20124#5,058
20113#6,007
20102#7,447

How popular is Evah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,883among girls
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 120,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 5% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Evah, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1887.

2025 had fewer girls named Evah than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Evah in the US since 1880 were born between 1919 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,167 girls in the US were given Evah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #163, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.

1887Busiest: 37 in 20112025
Evah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
202415#7,247
202316#6,917
202214#7,626
202124#5,233
20207#12,137
201917#6,694
201818#6,517
201723#5,515
201623#5,620
201529#4,724
201434#4,267
201334#4,241
201221#6,107
201137#3,998
201024#5,600
200927#5,225
200825#5,571
200716#7,729
200610#10,606
200511#9,447
20046#14,172
20036#13,837
20025#15,426
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19416#3,952
19400–
19390–
19380–
19370–
19360–
19355#4,202
19340–
19330–
19325#4,409
19317#3,495
193010#2,844
192913#2,436
19287#3,741
192713#2,551
19267#3,872
192511#2,938
192412#2,808
19237#3,970
19220–
192116#2,282
192010#3,097
19199#3,217
191810#3,023
19178#3,342
191612#2,497
191515#2,049
191412#2,009
19135#3,185
19128#2,143
19117#1,956
19100–
19090–
19085#2,101
19079#1,384
19069#1,321
19059#1,297
19047#1,485
19030–
19025#1,792
19016#1,466
19005#1,931
18990–
18987#1,379
18977#1,263
18965#1,582
18956#1,426
18948#1,136
18936#1,277
18927#1,171
18910–
18900–
18895#1,278
18880–
18876#1,036

Nicknames for Evah

Names like Evah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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