Eva — #120 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Eva

The Social Security Administration has registered 282,580 babies named Eva between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Eva currently holds the #120 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 4,563 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Eva performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 38,048 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Eva shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 22,046 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Eva in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Eva in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 282,580 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.