Eva (name)
Eva is a female given name, the Latinate counterpart of the Anglo-Saxon Eve, which is derived from the Hebrew חַוָּה, 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, Canadian politician
- Eva Adamová, Czech volleyball player
- Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Icelandic writer
- Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer
- Eva Ahuja, Indian actress
- Eva Allen Alberti, American dramatics teacher
- Eva Alexander, British actress and television presenter
- Eva Alordiah, Nigerian rapper, entertainer, make-up artist, & fashion designer
- Eva Amador Guillén, Spanish politician
- Eva Amaral, Spanish singer
- Eva Amurri, American actress
- Eva Andén, Swedish lawyer
- Eva Andersson-Dubin, Swedish physician, former model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Eva Angelina, American adult film actress
- Eva Aronson, Sweden-born American chess player
- Eva Arvidsson, Swedish politician
- Eva Asderaki, Greek tennis chair umpire
- Eva Avila, 2006 Canadian Idol winner
- Eva von Bahr (physicist), Swedish scientist
- Eva von Bahr (make-up artist), Swedish make-up artist and hair stylist
- Eva Beem, Dutch Jewish child; gassed to death in Auschwitz concentration camp
- Eva Bella, American voice actress
- Eva Best, American story writer, poet, music composer, dramatist
- Eva Birthistle, Irish actress and writer
- Eva Blanco, Spanish murder victim
- Eva Borušovičová, Slovak director, screenwriter and writer
- Eva Boto, Slovenian singer
- Eva Narcissus Boyd, American singer
- Eva Bowring, U.S. politician and United States Senator
- Eva Braun, lover, and later wife, of Adolf Hitler
- Eva Maria Brown, American social reformer
- Eva Burrows, 13th General of The Salvation Army
- Eva Cadena, Mexican politician from Veracruz
- Eva Callimachi-Catargi, French heiress and subject of two paintings by Henri Fantin-Latour
- Eva Carneiro, Gibraltar-born British sports medicine specialist and former first-team doctor at Chelsea F.C.
- Eva Cassidy, American singer
- Eva Maria Düringer Cavalli, Austrian fashion designer and beauty pageant titleholder
- Eva Celbová, Czech beach volleyball player
- Eva Christodoulou, Greek gymnast
- Eva Clare, Canadian musician and educator
- Eva Clarke, British-Czech Holocaust survivor
- Eva Clayton, U.S. politician and United States Congresswoman
- Eva Colorni, Italian economist
- Eva Crocker, Canadian writer
- Eva Cruz, Puerto Rican volleyball player
- Eva Czemerys, German-born film actress
- Eva Dahlgren, Swedish pop musician
- Eva Dickson, Swedish explorer
- Eva Dimas, Salvadoran weightlifter
- Eva Craig Graves Doughty, American journalist
- Eva de Braose, co-heiress of William de Braose
- Eva Duldig, Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
- Eva Ekeblad, Swedish botanist
- Eva Eugenio, Filipina singer
- Eva Fabian, American-Israeli world champion swimmer
- Eva Fontaine, British actress
- Eva Forest, Spanish far-left activist, writer and prisoner
- Eva Frankfurther, German-born British artist
G–L
- Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born American actress
- Eva Gordon-Simpson, British racing driver
- Eva Gore-Booth, Irish poet, dramatist, suffragist, social worker and labour activist
- Eva Gothlin, Swedish historian
- Eva Gouel, French choreographer and girlfriend of Pablo Picasso during the early 1910s
- Eva Grant, Greek and British glamour photographer
- Eva Gray (actress), British actress
- Eva Gray (cricketer), English cricketer
- Eva Gredal, Danish politician
- Eva Green, French actress
- Eva Kinney Griffith, American journalist, activist, novelist, editor, publisher
- Eva-Lena Gustavsson, Swedish politician
- Eva Hauserová, Czech journalist and writer
- Éva Hegedüs, Hungarian Chairman-CEO and majority shareholder of Gránit Bank
- Eva Herman, German television presenter and author
- Eva Herzigová, Czech supermodel
- Eva Hesse, German-born American artist
- Eva Horváthová, Slovak physician and politician
- Eva Houston, American Paralympic athlete
- Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-born British novelist of children's books
- Eva of Isenburg, Dutch Princess-Abbess of Thorn Abbey
- Eva Jinek, American-born Dutch journalist and television presenter
- Eva Kaili, Greek politician
- Eva-Lotta Kiibus, Estonian figure skater
- Eva Köhler, wife of the German President Horst Köhler
- Eva Kotamanidou, Greek actress
- Eva Kristínová, Slovak actress
- Eva LaRue, American actress
- Eva Lettenbauer, German politician
- Eva Longoria, American actress
M–P
- Eva Anne Madden, American educator, journalist, playwright, author
- Eva Magni, Italian stage and film actress
- Eva Maler, German playwright
- Eva Marie,American actress, fashion designer, model, and professional wrestler
- Eva Marshal, Anglo-Norman noblewoman
- Eva McLaren, British suffragist, writer, and political campaigner
- Eva Melander, Swedish actress
- Eva Melmuková, Czech Lutheran theologist and historian
- Eva Mendes, American actress
- Eva Merthen, known as "The Duchess of Finland"
- Eva Miranda, Spanish mathematician
- Eva Moll, German contemporary artist
- Eva Moltesen, Finnish-Danish writer and peace activist
- Eva Moore, English actress
- Eva Morris, native of England, known for a time as the oldest recognized person in the world
- Eva Moskowitz, U.S. educator and former politician
- Eva Mosnáková, Slovak human rights activist
- Eva Mottley, Barbadian-born British actress
- Eva, birth name of Hatice Muazzez, mother of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed II
- Eva Mudocci, British violinist
- Eva Neander, Swedish journalist
- Eva Nedinkovska, ethnic Macedonian singer
- Eva Noblezada, American theatre actress and singer
- Eva O'Hara, British actress
- Eva Okaro, British swimmer
- Eva Ortiz, American rock singer
- Eva Ortiz Vilella, Spanish politician
- Eva Pagels, German field hockey player
- Eva Palmer-Sikelianos, American choreographer and art historian
- Eva Pawlik, Austrian figure skater
- Eva Perón, Argentine First Lady, political leader, actor, and philanthropist; wife of Juan Perón
- Eva Haljecka Petković, Serbian doctor
- Eva Pel, Dutch visual artist
- Eva Philbin, Irish chemist
- Eva Pigford, American model
- Eva Polna, Russian singer, composer, and songwriter
- Eva Polttila, Finnish TV news anchor
- Eva Pölzing, German singer
- Eva Pope, British actress
- Eva Püssa, Estonian actress
R–Z
- Eva Reign, American actress and journalist
- Eva Rivas, Russian-Armenian singer
- Eva Rysová, Slovak actress
- Eva Marie Saint, American actress
- Éva Sas, French politician
- Eva Schloss, Austrian-English Holocaust survivor and memoirist
- Eva Silverstein, American physicist and string theorist
- Eva Simons, Dutch singer
- Eva Siracká, Slovak physician
- Eva Munson Smith, American composer, poet, author
- Eva Švíglerová, Czech professional tennis player
- Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born vaudeville entertainer
- Eva Griffith Thompson, American newspaper editor
- Eva Todor, Brazilian actress
- Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Dutch legal philosopher, political commentator and activist
- Eva Voraberger, Austrian boxer
- Eva Wilma, Brazilian actress
- Eva Winther, Swedish politician
- Eva Zuk, Polish model
Fictional characters
- Eva, Marco's mother from the Animorphs book series
- Eva, in the Devil May Cry series
- Eva, a character in the 2008 3D computer-animated film Igor
- 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
- E.V.A, an aspect of Fantomex in Marvel Comics
- EVE, a character in the 2008 Pixar film WALL-E whose name is mispronounced "Eva" by the film's title character
- Eva Bell (Tempus), a mutant character in Marvel Comics
- Eva Falco, a character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Eva Kant, character from Diabolik comics and Danger: Diabolik filmEva Luna, main character of Isabel Allende's picaresque novel
- Eva Mapendo, in 2018 romantic drama series Ngayon at Kailanman, portrayed by Julia Barretto
- Eva Kviig Mohn, a main character in the Norwegian television series Skam
- Eva Nilsson, character on the series Star Trek: Discovery
- Eva Price, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Eva Quintero, a member of Strange Academy and the cousin of Reptil
- Evangeline St. Clare, called Eva, a major character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Eva Strong, a character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Eva Tsunaka, a character in the game Project: Eden's Garden
- 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''