Eva (name)
Eva is a female first name.
Origin and Meaning
- Translated from the Hebrew: " Chawwah " ( חוּה ), the life giver, Mother of the living
In Germany the name was already playing in the Middle Ages when naming a role, but was popular after the Reformation, which can be explained with the fact that the biblical Eve of the Catholic church is a sinner, so that Eve can not be a Christian name in the Catholic sense. Only Mary as the Second Eve brought their sin in the Christian faith back from the world.
Name-day
Variants
- Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian: Jewa ( Ева )
- German Language: Ev, Eve
- English: Eve
- Estonian, Finnish: Eeva
- French: Ève
- Hebrew: Chava, Chawah ( חוּה )
- Irish: Aoife
- Latvian, Lithuanian: Ieva
- Low German: Eveke
- Upper German: Evi
- Upper Sorbian: JEWA
- Polish Ewa
- Turkish: Havva
- Hungarian: Éva
Name winners
- Eva Biaudet ( b. 1961 ), Finnish politician
- Eva Narcissus Boyd (1943-2003), American singer ( Little Eva )
- Eva Braun (1912-1945), wife of Adolf Hitler
- Eva Habermann (born 1976 ), German film actress
- Eva -Maria Hagen ( born 1934 ), German actress and singer
- Eva Hass (b. 1972), German actress
- Eva Herman (born 1958 ), German television presenter
- Eva Herzigová (born 1973 ), Czech Model
- Eva Long ( * 1947 ), German economist
- Eva L' Arronge (1907-1996), German actress and dancer
- Eva Longoria ( born 1975 ), American actress
- Eva Maria Marold (* 1968), Austrian singer and actress
- Eva Mattes (born 1954 ), German actress
- Eva Mendes ( born 1974 ), American actress
- Eva Padberg ( born 1980 ), German fashion model
- Eva Perón (1919-1952), Argentine First Lady ( Evita )
- Eva Pflug (1929-2008), German actress
- Eva Rühmkorf (1935-2013), German psychologist and politician
- Eva Strittmatter (1930-2011), German poet and writer
- Eva Zlonitzky ( born 1931 or 1935), German actress
Figures from myth and art
- Eve, biblical figure, see Adam and Eve
- Eva, character in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Female first name