girls:
280.2k births since 1880
#138 (98th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1887
#3586 (22nd percentile)
overall:
281.3k births since 1880
#278 (96th percentile)
The name Eva is the #278 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 281,254 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #138 (97.6% percentile) for all time with 280,247 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,586 (21.8% percentile) for all time with 1,007 births since 1887.
Eva has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1887 for boys).
The name Eva has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Eva reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 92.5% percentile (ranked #72) with 1,928 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 7,513 births per million (ranked 88.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Eva ranks #109 for girls (88.6% percentile) with 1,375 births per million, which is 18.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Eva reached its peak popularity in 1909, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #255) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 102 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Eva ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eva".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Eva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Eva is pronounced as EE-vuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-vuh, at 23.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like IY1 V AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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