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Eeva

Girls' name

Life

Eeva has been given to 177 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Eeva, 2022

1 in 484,000

Eeva over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eeva: meaning, origin, and history

Life

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eeva means

Eeva means “life”, associated with ḥawwā́.

Origin, language, and formation

Eeva is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eve.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Eeva is pronounced /ˈeːʋɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 177 girls were recorded with the name Eeva between 2005 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2017; its best national rank was #5,886 in 2017.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eeva?

Eeva had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eeva sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eeva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eevas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eeva was born before 2015 — so the typical Eeva is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
68.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
177
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 68.4% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Eeva rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (21)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,886
2017

Spellings of Eeva

Eeva is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 21.5% against Eeva's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Eeva around the world

Where Eeva ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2002–2022
    #4,975
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eeva by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,886
2017
Peak year
2017
21 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
177
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eeva

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Eeva

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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