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Eva

Eva Perón
Gender	Feminine
Origin
Word/name	Latin, Hebrew
Meaning	life
Other names
Related names	Eve, Ieva, Evita

Eva is a female given name, the Latinate counterpart of English Eve, which is derived from the Hebrew חַוָּה (Chava/Hava), meaning "life" or "living one", the name of the first woman according to the Hebrew Bible. It can also mean full of life or mother of life. It is the standard biblical form of Eve in many European languages. Evita is a diminutive form, in Spanish.

People

A–F

• Eva Aariak (born 1955), Canadian politician
• Eva Adamová (born 1960), Czech volleyball player
• Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912–1954), German astronomer
• Eva Ahuja (born 1980), Indian actress
• Eva Allen Alberti (1856-1938), American dramatics teacher
• Eva Alordiah (born 1988), Nigerian rapper, entertainer, make-up artist, & fashion designer
• Eva Amaral (born 1973), Spanish singer
• Eva Amurri (born 1985), American actress
• Eva Andén (1886–1970), Swedish lawyer
• Eva Angelina (born 1985), American adult film actress
• Eva Arvidsson (born 1948), Swedish politician
• Eva Asderaki (born 1982), Greek tennis chair umpire
• Eva Avila (born 1987), 2006 Canadian Idol winner
• Eva von Bahr (physicist) (1874–1962), Swedish scientist
• Eva von Bahr (make-up artist) (born 1968), Swedish make-up artist and hair stylist
• Eva Beem (1932–1944), Dutch Jewish child; gassed to death in Auschwitz concentration camp
• Eva Bella (born 2002), American voice actress
• Eva Blanco (1981-1997), Spanish murder victim
• Eva Bowring (1892–1985), U.S. politician and United States Senator
• Eva Boto (born 1995), Slovenian singer
• Eva Narcissus Boyd (1943–2003), American singer
• Eva Braun (1912–1945), lover, and later wife, of Adolf Hitler
• Eva Maria Brown (1856-1917), American social reformer
• Eva Burrows (1929–2015), 13th General of The Salvation Army
• Eva Cadena, Mexican politician from Veracruz
• Eva Carneiro, Gibraltar-born British sports medicine specialist and former first-team doctor at Chelsea F.C.
• Eva Cassidy (1963–1996), American singer
• Eva Celbová (born 1975), Czech beach volleyball player
• Eva Christodoulou (born 1983), Greek gymnast
• Eva Clare (1885–1961), Canadian musician and educator
• Eva Clarke (born 1945), British-Czech Holocaust survivor
• Eva Clayton (born 1934), U.S. politician and United States Congresswoman
• Eva Crocker, Canadian writer
• Eva Cruz (born 1974), Puerto Rican volleyball player
• Eva Czemerys (1940–1996), German-born film actress
• Eva Dahlgren (born 1960), Swedish pop musician
• Eva Dickson (1905–1938), Swedish explorer
• Eva Dimas (born 1973), Salvadoran weightlifter
• Eva Craig Graves Doughty (1852–?), American journalist
• Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
• Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), Swedish botanist
• Eva Fabian (born 1993), American-Israeli world champion swimmer

G–L

• Eva Gabor (1919–1995), Hungarian-born American actress
• Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926), Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist
• Eva Gothlin (1957–2006), Swedish historian
• Eva Grant (1925–2024), Greek and British glamour photographer
• Eva Gray (born 1971), British actress
• Eva Gray (born 2000), English cricketer
• Eva Gredal (1927–1995), Danish politician
• Eva Green (born 1980), French actress
• Eva Kinney Griffith (1852–1918), American journalist, activist, novelist, editor, publisher
• Eva-Lena Gustavsson (born 1956), Swedish politician
• Eva Hauserová (1954–2023), Czech journalist and writer
• Éva Hegedüs (1957–) Hungarian Chairman-CEO and majority shareholder of Gránit Bank
• Eva Herman (born 1958), German television presenter and author
• Eva Herzigová (born 1973), Czech supermodel
• Eva Hesse (1936–1970), German-born American artist
• Eva Horváthová (born 1974), Slovak physician and politician
• Eva Jinek (born 1978), American-born Dutch journalist and television presenter
• Eva Kaili (born 1978), Greek politician
• Eva-Lotta Kiibus (born 2003), Estonian figure skater
• Eva Köhler (born 1947), wife of the German President Horst Köhler
• Eva Kotamanidou (1936–2020), Greek actress
• Eva Kristínová (1928–2020), Slovak actress
• Eva LaRue (born 1966), American actress
• Eva Lettenbauer (born 1992), German politician
• Eva Longoria (born 1975), American actress

M–P

• Eva Anne Madden (1863–1958), American educator, journalist, playwright, author
• Eva Magni (1909–2005), Italian stage and film actress
• Eva Maler (born 1988), German playwright
• Eva Melander (born 1974) Swedish actress
• Eva Melmuková (1932–2022), Czech Lutheran theologist and historian
• Eva Mendes (born 1974), American actress
• Eva Merthen (1723–1811), known as "The Duchess of Finland"
• Eva Miranda, Spanish mathematician
• Eva Moll (born 1975), German contemporary artist
• Eva Moltesen (1871–1934), Finnish-Danish writer and peace activist
• Eva Moore (1870–1955), English actress
• Eva Morris (1885–2000), native of England, known for a time as the oldest recognized person in the world
• Eva Moskowitz (born 1964), U.S. educator and former politician
• Eva, birth name of Hatice Muazzez, mother of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed II
• Eva Neander (1921–1950), Swedish journalist
• Eva Nedinkovska (born 1983), ethnic Macedonian singer
• Eva Noblezada (born 1996), American theatre actress and singer
• Eva Pagels (born 1954), German field hockey player
• Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), American choreographer and art historian
• Eva Pawlik (1927–1983), Austrian figure skater
• Eva Perón (1919–1952), Argentinian First Lady, political leader, actor, and philanthropist; wife of Juan Perón
• Eva Haljecka Petković (1870–1947), Serbian doctor
• Eva Pel, a Dutch visual artist
• Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist
• Eva Pigford (born 1984), American model
• Eva Polna (born 1975), Russian singer, composer, and songwriter
• Eva Polttila (born 1946), retired Finnish TV news anchor
• Eva Pölzing, a German singer
• Eva Pope (born 1967), English actress
• Eva Püssa (born 1971), Estonian actress

R–Z

• Eva Reign, American actress and journalist
• Eva Rivas, Russian-Armenian singer
• Eva Rysová (1932-2023) - Slovak actress
• Eva Marie Saint (born 1924), American actress
• Éva Sas (born 1970), French politician
• Eva Silverstein (born 1970), American physicist and string theorist
• Eva Simons (born 1984), Dutch singer
• Eva Siracká (1926-2023), Slovak physician
• Eva Munson Smith (1843–1915), American composer, poet, author
• Eva Švíglerová (born 1971), Czech former professional tennis player
• Eva Tanguay (1878–1947), Canadian-born vaudeville entertainer
• Eva Griffith Thompson (1842–1925), American newspaper editor
• Eva Vlaardingerbroek (born 1996), Dutch legal philosopher, political commentator and activist
• Eva Winther (1921–2014), Swedish politician

Fictional characters

• Eva, Marco's mother from the Animorphs book series
• Eva, a character in the 2008 3D computer-animated film Igor
• EVE, a character in the 2008 Pixar film WALL-E whose name is mispronounced "Eva" by the film's title character
• Eva, the Goddess of Water in the mythology of the MMORPG Lineage II
• EVA, character in the Metal Gear video game series
• Eva, a female keel-billed toucan who is Rafael's wife in Rio and Rio 2
• Eva, a character in the Canadian animated television series Total Drama
• Eva, one of the main characters in the anime series Tweeny Witches
• Eva, protagonist character in What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang
• Eva Falco, a character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Eva Kant, character from Diabolik comics and Danger: Diabolik film
• Eva Luna, main character of Isabel Allende's picaresque novel
• Eva Kviig Mohn, a main character in the Norwegian television series Skam
• Evangeline St. Clare, called Eva, a major character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Eva Price, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Eva Strong, a character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Eva Ushiromiya, a character in the visual novel, manga and anime series Umineko When They Cry
• Eva Wei, the main character of the Jetix animated television series Oban Star Racers
• Eva Zimmer, a character in the webseries The Zimmer Twins
• Eva Nilsson, character on the series Star Trek: Discovery
• Eva, mother of twins Dante and Vergil in the Devil May Cry series. Also the wife of Sparda.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Eva
• Eve (name)
• Evita (disambiguation)

References

• The Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World (1984), by Bruce Lansky
• Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names
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