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Evita

Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Evita is a girls' name of Spanish origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Evita mean?

Spanish

A female given name from Spanish.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Evita is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Evita in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 12 girls.

Half of all the girls named Evita in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1998Busiest: 12 in 20102024
Evita in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20244#4,907
20230–
20220–
20214#4,864
20203#5,734
201910#2,590
20183#5,896
20177#3,395
20166#3,788
20156#3,777
20147#3,321
20138#3,060
201210#2,666
20119#2,794
201012#2,234
20096#3,603
200811#2,286
20078#2,790
20066#3,280
20054#4,150
20044#3,916
20030–
20023#4,284
20013#4,156
20004#3,399
19990–
19983#4,026

How popular is Evita in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,913th among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Evita, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1981, with 210 girls. It first appears in the records in 1951.

Half of all the girls named Evita in the US since 1880 were born between 1981 and 2001, the years shaded on the chart below.

1951Busiest: 210 in 19812025
Evita in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20249#10,266
20239#10,307
20228#11,225
202112#8,459
20200–
201920#5,982
20180–
201715#7,438
201616#7,227
201519#6,450
201414#8,050
201314#8,131
201218#6,868
201113#8,610
201011#9,786
200911#9,971
200811#10,080
200719#6,808
200619#6,590
200524#5,261
200411#9,259
200314#7,575
200210#9,476
200113#7,717
200010#9,156
199912#7,710
199815#6,355
199735#3,299
199616#5,766
19958#9,548
19949#8,798
199310#8,045
199218#5,260
19918#9,328
199014#6,125
198920#4,516
198825#3,685
198719#4,280
198634#2,778
198536#2,656
198458#1,837
198380#1,447
198295#1,317
1981210#779
198075#1,552
197910#6,188
19780–
19770–
19760–
19756#7,982
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19698#5,455
19680–
19676#6,041
19668#4,865
19657#5,288
19649#4,635
19638#4,895
19620–
19616#5,850
19605#6,389
19590–
195811#3,746
195710#3,929
19565#5,951
19555#5,826
19547#4,653
19535#5,672
19520–
19516#4,832

Names like Evita

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Evita: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/evita, updated 20 October 2026.