Name: Eve
Gender: Female
Usage: Eve, of biblical origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Eve are in general originating from Estonia, France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Eve across the world, see Chava.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Eve is: Life.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Eve is ranked on the 1,231st position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 398000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.006% of the population. The name Eve has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Eve for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Eve is 24 December.
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History and Origin
Eve /iːv/ is an English given name for a female, derived from Eva, in turn originating with Hebrew חַוָּה (Chavah/Havah - chavah, to breathe, and chayah, to live, or to give life). The traditional meaning of Eve is 'living'.
The name has religious significance in the Judeo/Christian/Muslim tradition, after the use of Eve / living as the female companion of the Biblical Adam / man. Its use as a first name in England began in the 12th Century.
Alternative forms:
- Eva, popular in many European countries.
- Eve as an anglicized form of Gaelic Aoife "radiant, beautiful" in Scotland and Ireland.
- Evita
- Ieva, a Latvian and Lithuanian form.
- Evie, usually a familiar form, now also a given name.
English and French form of the name borne in the Bible by the first woman, created from one of Adam's ribs (Genesis 2: 22). It derives, via Latin ēva, from Hebrew Havva, which is considered to be a variant of the vocabulary word hayya living or animal (see Chaya). Adam gave names to all the animals (Genesis 2: 19–20) and then to his wife, who was ‘the mother of all living’(Genesis 3: 20).
Variant: Eva.
Pet form: Evie.
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