Evah
#8,018 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Evah has been given to 782 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #8,018 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Evah, 2025
1 in 255,000
Evah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Evah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,018
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Evah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Evah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Evahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Evah was born before 2008 — so the typical Evah is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 33.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 455
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (260).
Is Evah 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
- −663
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,535
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,260
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.45×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.1%
- Peak was 2011 (37)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.2% average annual change
Spellings of Evah
Evah is not the most common spelling — Ava is, with 26.1% against Evah's 0.06%.
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.
Where Evah is used
Across 1910–2025, Evah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 962,374 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Evah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Evah around the world
Where Evah 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 & Wales2011–2022#3,971in 2022
- Scotland2016–2016#675in 2016
- France2004–2024#3,912in 2024
- Canada2007–2018#3,384in 2018
- South Australia2008–2011#514in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Evah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Evah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Evah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.