Eve (first name)

Eve is a feminine given name .

Origin and meaning

Eve can be the French form of Eva , usually written Ève; however, since an accent is seldom placed on a capital letter in French, it is written Eve; pronounced as [ ɛːv ]. It is also the English form of Eve, pronounced as [ iːv ]. It can also be the short form of the name Evegret , pronounced as [ eːf ], or the German form of the name Eva, pronounced as [ eːvə ] or [ eːv ].

Eve is the daughter of actress Marthe Rull in the comedy The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist . With this, "Eve" entered the literature as a German name.

Name bearers

First name

• Eve Angel (* 1983), Hungarian porn actress and erotic model
• Ève Angeli (* 1980), French singer (pop)
• Eve Arden (1908–1990), American actress
• Eve Arnold (1912–2012), American photographer
• Eve Badana (* 1993), Irish national soccer player and former Canadian junior international
• Eve Best (* 1971), British actress and theater director
• Eve Chandraratne (* 1989), German soccer player and doctor
• Ève Chiapello (* 1965), French economist
• Ève Curie (1904–2007), daughter of Marie Curie, French Writer and advisor to the Secretary General of NATO
• Eve-Marie Engels (* 1951), German expert on bioethics
• Eve Ensler (* 1953), American playwright, writer, artist and feminist activist
• Eve Francis (1886–1980), French actress of Belgian origin
• Ève Gagnier (1930–1984), Canadian soprano and actress
• Ève Gran-Aymerich (* 1947), French archaeologist and historian
• Eve Hewson (born 1991), Irish actress
• Ève Luquet (* 1954), French engraver and postage stamp artist
• Eve Mauro (* 1981), American actress of Sicilian origin
• Eve Meyer (1928–1977), American model, actress and film producer
• Eve Myles (born 1978), Welsh actress
• Eve Plumb (born 1958), American actress
• Whitney Eve Port (* 1985), American reality TV actress and fashion designer
• Eve Rades (* 1987), German musical actress
• Eve Risser (* 1982), French jazz and improvisation musician and composer
• Ève Routhier (* 1988), Canadian ski racer
• Eve Rudschies (* 1959), French author
• Eve Scheer (* 1977), German actress and racing car driver
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009), American writer
• Eve Torres (* 1984), American wrestler

stage name

• Eve (* 1978), American rapper and actress