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Evita

#11,250 in 2025Girls' name

To live, through Eva

Evita has been given to 1,247 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #11,250 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 210 recorded.

Babies named Evita, 2025

1 in 414,000

Evita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Evita: meaning, origin, and history

To live, through Eva

Spanish, Hebrew and Latin

What Evita means

Evita belongs to the name family reached through Evita → Evita → Eva → חַוָּה. Its meaning is “to live”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Spanish Evita, a pet form of Eva.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Evita (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Evita is used in English, Latvian and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish, Hebrew and Latin.

Evita comes through Spanish Evita.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eva, Evita and חַוָּה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Evita is pronounced /eˈbita/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,247 girls were recorded with the name Evita between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 210 in 1981; its best national rank was #779 in 1981.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,537 in 2015 to #11,250 in 2025.

How common is Evita?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,250
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Evita 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Evita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Evitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Evita was born before 1984 — so the typical Evita is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,247
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (652).

Is Evita 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
−715
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,713
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 1981 (210)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#779
1981

Spellings of Evita

Evita is not the most common spelling — Eva is, with 15.9% against Evita's 0.07%.

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 Evita is used

Across 1910–2025, Evita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 224,944 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Evita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Evita around the world

Where Evita 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
    1998–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1978–2008
    #597
    in 2008
  • France
    1999–2020
    #6,186
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #2,443
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1956–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Evita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,250
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#779
1981
Peak year
1981
210 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,247
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Evita

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

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Sibling names for Evita

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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