Eva (first name)
Eva is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
- From Hebrew חוּה Chawwah , 'the one who gives life', 'mother of the living'. The Bible is generally considered to be the oldest written source for the name Eve . In the Vulgate , which according to the Brockhaus Encyclopedia , (Latin :) was the widely distributed edition of the 383 Bible translations of St. Jerome , the name is Heva . It is translated as "life".
name day
variants
- Arabic : Hawa, Hawwa ( Arabic حَوَّاء, DMG Ḥawwāʾ )
- Belarusian , Russian , Ukrainian : Jewa ( Ева )
- German language : Ev, Eve , Evi
- English : Eve
- Estonian , Finnish : Eeva
- French : Ève
- Hebrew : Chava, Chawah (חוּה)
- Irish : Aoife
- Latin ( Vulgate ): Heva
- Latvian , Lithuanian : Ieva
- Dutch : Eva, Eef, Eefke, Aafke, Evelien
- Low German : Eveke
- Upper German : Evi
- Upper Sorbian : Jěwa
- Polish : Ewa
- Persian, Turkish : Havva
- Hungarian : Éva
Name bearers
Eva:
- Eva K. Anderson (* 1977), Austrian singer-songwriter
- Eva Badura-Skoda (* 1929), German-Austrian musicologist
- Eva Bartok (1927–1998), Hungarian film actress
- Eva Maria Bauer (1923-2006), German actress
- Eva Beiter-Schwärzler (* 1988), Austrian ice hockey player
- Eva Biaudet (* 1961), Finnish politician
- Eva Bonné (* 1970), German translator
- Eva Bosáková (1931–1991), Czech artistic gymnast
- Eva Narcissus Boyd (1943–2003), American singer, see Little Eva
- Eva Braun (1912–1945), wife of Adolf Hitler
- Eva Demski (* 1944), German writer
- Eva Glawischnig (* 1969), Austrian politician
- Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883), French impressionist painter
- Eva Green (* 1980), French actress
- Eva Guttsman Ostwalt (1902-2010), German-American survivor of the Holocaust
- Eva Habermann (* 1976), German film actress
- Eva-Maria Hagen (* 1934), German actress and singer
- Eva Hahn (* 1946), German-Czech historian
- Eva Kjer Hansen (* 1964), Danish politician (Venstre) and former minister
- Eva Kristin Hansen (* 1973), Norwegian politician
- Eva Hassmann (* 1972), German actress
- Eva Herman (* 1958), German television presenter
- Eva Herzigová (* 1973), Czech model
- Eva ( Eva Killutat ; 1943–2020), German chanson singer
- Eva Klemperer (1882–1951), German concert pianist, organist, painter and literary translator
- Eva Kreissl (* 1958), German-Austrian cultural scientist
- Eva Kryll (* 1953), German actress
- Eva Lang (* 1947), German economist
- Eva L'Arronge (1907–1996), German actress and dancer
- Eva Lippold (1909–1994), German resistance fighter and writer
- Eva Lohse (* 1956), German politician
- Eva Longoria (* 1975), American actress
- Eva Maria Marold (* 1968), Austrian singer and actress
- Eva Mattes (* 1954), German-Austrian actress
- Eva Maria Meineke (1923–2018), German stage and film actress
- Eva Mendes (* 1974), American actress
- Eva Moser (* 1957), German historian
- Eva Moser (1982-2019), Austrian chess player
- Eva Nordmark (* 1971), Swedish politician and trade unionist
- Eva Nowotny (* 1944), Austrian ambassador
- Eva Padberg (* 1980), German model, singer and songwriter, presenter and actress
- Eva Perón (1919–1952), Argentine First Lady (Evita)
- Eva Pflug (1929–2008), German actress
- Eva von Platen (* 1965), German artist
- Eva Quante-Brandt (* 1960), German educator
- Eva Rechlin (1928–2011), German writer
- Eva Rühmkorf (1935–2013), German psychologist and politician
- Eva Marie Saint (born 1924), American actress
- Eva Schöck-Quinteros (* 1944), German historian
- Eva Strittmatter (1930–2011), German poet and writer
- Eva Voraberger (* 1990), Austrian professional boxer
- Eva Wagner-Pasquier (* 1945), German theater manager
- Eva Walkner (* 1979), Austrian freeride athlete
- Eva Wannenmacher (* 1971), Swiss television presenter
- Eva Wilms (* 1952), German athlete and trainer
- Eva Zaoralová (* 1932), Czech film critic
- Eva Zippel (1925–2013), German sculptor and draftsman
- Eva Zlonitzky (* 1931 or 1935), German actress
Éva:
- Éva, 2nd Countess of Buchan , Scottish noblewoman, 2nd Countess of Buchan
- Éva Besnyő (1910–2003), Hungarian-Dutch photographer
- Éva B. Bónis (1919–1999), Hungarian archaeologist
- Éva Darlan (born 1948), French actress
- Éva Fahidi (* 1925), Hungarian contemporary witness of the Shoa
- Éva Janikovszky (1926–2003), Hungarian writer
- Éva Karakas (1922–1995), Hungarian chess master
- Éva Kóczián (* 1936), Hungarian table tennis player
- Éva Marton (* 1943), Hungarian opera singer (soprano)
- Éva Novák (1930–2005), Hungarian swimmer
- Éva Székely (1927–2020), Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion
- Éva Szemcsák (* 1975), Hungarian biathlete
- Éva Tófalvi (* 1978), Romanian biathlete
Eeva:
- Eeva Fleig (* 1964), Swiss camerawoman
- Eeva Kilpi (* 1928), Finnish writer and poet
- Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995), Finnish poet and translator
- Eeva Park (* 1950), Estonian writer
- Eeva Therman (1916-2004), Finnish-American cytogeneticist
Chava:
- Chava Pressburger (* 1930), Czech-Israeli artist
Figures from myth and art
- Eva, character in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Eva, title character in the opera of the same name by Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Individual evidence
- ↑ vol. From 1968 and vol. From 1974.