Evita
Evita was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,250 among girls’ names; 1,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Evita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 24 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Evita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Evita mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Evita is “a female given name from Spanish.”
From Spanish Evita, a pet form of Eva.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Evita?
#11,250 among girls’ names, 2025
Evita fell from #6,537 in 2015 to #11,250 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 5.0 per million.
210 babies in 1981, the peak
Evita peaked in 1981, when 210 girls were given it, #779 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,250 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,535 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,583 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,538 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,646 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,042 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,574 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,364 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,537 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,192 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 14 | #8,272 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,954 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,788 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,992 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,194 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,297 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,905 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,673 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,321 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,447 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,711 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,729 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,876 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,387 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,874 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,473 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,310 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,868 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,057 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,252 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,335 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,601 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,227 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,553 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,730 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,347 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,796 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,671 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,843 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 80 | #1,454 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 95 | #1,320 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 210 | #779 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,555 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,334 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,994 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,453 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,728 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,007 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,652 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,801 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,249 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,129 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,817 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,025 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Evita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Evita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Evita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Evita, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,247 Americans ever recorded as Evita. The median Evita alive today is 42 years old; half are between 24 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,364 people named Evita (1,364 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 63 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 637 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 243 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 143 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Evita born?
The states with the most babies named Evita are California, New York and Illinois, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 129 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 99 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 75 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 10 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Evita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,581 babies since 1880, Evita is the most given (79% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Evita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Evita and names like it
- Compare Evita and EvettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEvita peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Evita since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Evita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Evita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Evita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.