Gender:
Origin:
Hebrew
177 famous people named Eve found on Wikipedia.
25376 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
442-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
414-th in year 1907
Used in: Biblical, English
A female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “life.”.
Eve is an English given name for a female, derived from the Latin name Eva, in turn originating with the 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 Abrahamic religions, as the first woman was named Eve. Its use as a first name in England began in the 12th century. It did not, however, gain much popularity until the Protestant Reformation. Beforehand, it was usually associated with Jews, who either use the form or Chavah. In west Africa the name Eve means AWA
C. 1200, eve "evening," especially the time between sunset and darkness, from Old English æfen, with loss of terminal -n (which, though forming part of the stem, perhaps was mistaken for an inflection), from Proto-Germanic *æbando- (source also of Old Saxon aband, Old Frisian ewnd, Dutch avond, Old High German aband, German Abend, Old Norse aptann, Danish aften), which is of uncertain origin. Now superseded in its original sense by evening. Specific meaning "day before a saint's day or festival" is from late 13c. Transferred sense of "the moment right before any event, etc." is by 1780. Even (n.), evening keep the original form.
Life, living One.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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1 | Alice Eve | 1982 | English actress |
2 | Eve Torres | 1984 | American actress, dancer, model and former professional wrestler |
3 | Eve Plumb | 1958 | Actress, painter |
4 | Eve Arden | 1908 | Actress |
5 | Eve Hewson | 1991 | Irish actress |
6 | Amazon Eve | 1979 | American model, fitness trainer, and actress |
7 | Eve Best | 1971 | British actress |
8 | Trevor Eve | 1951 | British actor |
9 | Eve Myles | 1978 | Actress from Wales |
10 | Eve Pollard | 1945 | British journalist |
11 | Eve Branson | 1924 | British philanthropist |
12 | Eve Meyer | 1928 | Model, actress, film producer |
13 | Eve Ensler | 1953 | American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist |
14 | Eve Harlow | 1989 | Canadian actress |
15 | Eve Angel | 1983 | Hungarian pornographic actress and model |
16 | Eve Muirhead | 1990 | Scottish curler |
17 | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | 1950 | American academic |
18 | Eve Morey | 1983 | Television actress |
19 | Eve Matheson | 1960 | British actress |
20 | Eve Adams | 1974 | Canadian politician |
21 | Eve Babitz | 1943 | American author |
22 | Eve Brent | 1929 | Actress |
23 | Eve McVeagh | 1919 | American actress |
24 | Atom Eve | ||
25 | Eve Mavrakis | 1966 | |
26 | Eve | Character in Xena | |
27 | Eve Bunting | 1928 | American children's writer |
28 | Eve Arnold | 1912 | American photojournalist |
29 | Eve Graham | 1943 | British singer |
30 | Eve Libertine | 1949 | British singer |
31 | Eve Miller | 1923 | Actress |
32 | Eve van Grafhorst | 1982 | Australian child |
33 | Eve Mauro | 1981 | Actress and Fashion Model |
34 | Eve Russell | ||
35 | Dale Eve | 1995 | Footballer |
36 | Eve Karpf | 1947 | British actress |
37 | Eve Duncan | ||
38 | Eve Frank | 1754 | Self-proclaimed Jewish messiah |
39 | Jarkko Eve | 1963 | Finnish musician |
40 | Eve Jenson | ||
41 | Eve Merriam | 1916 | American poet and writer |
42 | Eve von Bibra | 1966 | Australian musician |
43 | Eve Boswell | 1922 | Hungarian singer |
44 | Eve Tushnet | 1978 | |
45 | Eve Laurence | 1985 | American pornographic actress |
46 | Angus Eve | 1972 | Trinidad and Tobago footballer |
47 | Eve Scheer | 1977 | German actress |
48 | Eve Pearce | 1929 | British actress |
49 | Eve of Naharon | ||
50 | Eve Titus | 1905 | American writer |
51 | Eve Hietamies | 1964 | Finnish journalist |
52 | Claudia Eve | 1968 | |
53 | Eve Antoinette Ichwan | ||
54 | Arthur Eve | 1933 | New York politician |
55 | Amy J. St. Eve | 1965 | United States federal judge |
56 | Eve Marder | 1948 | American neuroscientist |
57 | Eve Stewart | 1961 | British production designer |
58 | Lisvel Elisa Eve | 1991 | Female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic |
59 | Eve Beglarian | 1958 | American composer and musician |
60 | Eve Southern | 1898 | Actress |
61 | Eve Sussman | 1961 | British-American artist |
62 | Eve Gentry | American dancerAmerican dancer | |
63 | Eve Whittle | 1967 | American actress |
64 | Eve D'Souza | 1979 | |
65 | Eve Jardine-Young | ||
66 | Eve Gray | 1900 | Actress |
67 | Eve Queler | 1931 | American conductor |
68 | Eve Sweetser | 1955 | Professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley |
69 | Eve Gallagher | British singer | |
70 | Leecia Eve | 1964 | American politician |
71 | Eve White | English actor and literary agent | |
72 | Eve Garnett | 1900 | English artist and children's writer |
73 | Eve Ewing | American writer, artist and academic | |
74 | Eve Langley | 1904 | Twentieth-century Australian novelist |
75 | Eve Taylor | English music manager | |
76 | Eve Adler | 1945 | American author |
77 | Eve Golden | American biographer | |
78 | Eve Forward | 1972 | American fiction writer |
79 | Eve Christine Gadzikwa | 1964 | |
80 | Laverne Eve | 1965 | Bahamian javelin thrower |
81 | Eve Palmer | 1916 | South African non-fiction writer and botanist |
82 | Dick Eve | 1901 | Diver |
83 | Eve de Castro-Robinson | 1956 | Composer |
84 | Eve Viilup | 1953 | |
85 | Eve Rimmer | 1937 | New Zealand paralympic athlete |
86 | André Eve | 1931 | French rose breeder |
87 | Eve Gil | 1968 | Mexican writer |
88 | Oswald Eve | 1715 | American revolutionary |
89 | Eve Macfarlane | 1992 | New Zealand rower |
90 | Eve Lister | 1913 | British actress |
91 | Eve Andree Laramee | 1956 | Ecological artist |
92 | Eve Troutt Powell | 1961 | American historian |
93 | Eve Johnstone | 1944 | British neuroscientist |
94 | Eve Berlin | American musician | |
95 | Matti Eve | Finnish journalist | |
96 | Eve V. Clark | 1942 | American linguist |
97 | Eve LaPlante | American writer | |
98 | Eve Mosher | American artist | |
99 | George W. Eve | 1855 | Engraver |
100 | Eve Chalom | 1979 | Figure skater |
101 | Eve Chandraratne | 1989 | German association football player |
102 | Eve Blantyre Simpson | 1855 | British writer |
103 | Eve Tetaz | 1931 | Australian activist |
104 | Eve de Bermingham, Lady of Offaly | ||
105 | Eve Unsell | 1887 | Screenwriter |
106 | Richard Eve | 1831 | British notary |
107 | Eve Risser | 1982 | French pianist and jazz musician |
108 | Eve Egoyan | Canadian artist and pianist | |
109 | Eve Drewelowe | 1899 | American artist |
110 | Eve Zaremba | 1930 | Canadian writer |
111 | Eve Fowler | 1964 | American photographer |
112 | Luke Eve | 1974 | Australian film director |
113 | Eve Stephenson | 1969 | American racing cyclist |
114 | Eve Moneypenny | ||
115 | Eve Shelnutt | 1941 | American poet |
116 | Nomi Eve | 1968 | American writer |
117 | Eric Eve | Video game programmer | |
118 | Eve Balfour | 1895 | British actress |
119 | Eve McCrystal | 1978 | Irish Paralympic cyclist |
120 | Eve Aronoff | 1963 | American judoka |
121 | Eve Mayfair | 1980 | American pornographic actor |
122 | Herbert Trustram Eve | British real property expert | |
123 | Eve Goldberg | 1967 | Canadian singer and writer |
124 | Eve Weston | TV Writer | |
125 | Eve Ryder | ||
126 | Eve Mahlab | Australian activist | |
127 | Frank Cecil Eve | 1871 | British physician |
128 | Eve Kirk | 1900 | British artist |
129 | Eve Leigh | 1984 | British theatre director |
130 | Eve Joseph | 1953 | Canadian poet |
131 | Eve Newman | 1915 | American film editor |
132 | Eve Väyrynen | ||
133 | Eve Slater | 1945 | American physician who served as the United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services |
134 | Eve Badana | 1993 | Footballer |
135 | Harry Trelawney Eve | 1856 | British politician |
136 | Eve Uusmees | 1936 | Olympic swimmer |
137 | eVe Buigues | 1968 | Singer/composer, leader of Los Angeles band Jariya; founder of The Jazz In Paris Project |
138 | Eve Pärnaste | ||
139 | Eve Grinsztajn | 1981 | French choreographer |
140 | Lina Eve | 1946 | Australian artist |
141 | Iliana Eve | ||
142 | Joseph Eve | 1784 | American politician |
143 | Eve Caesar | Cricketer | |
144 | James Eve | 1837 | |
145 | Eve Heller | American filmmaker | |
146 | Arthur Stewart Eve | 1862 | British physicist |
147 | Eve Dutton | 1928 | |
148 | Eve Louise Kelland | 1889 | Australian actor and singer |
149 | Eve Franklin | American politician | |
150 | Eve Higginbotham | 1953 | |
151 | Eve Gordon | 1982 | New Zealander actress |
152 | Stan Eve | 1925 | Cricketer |
153 | Eve Savander | 1998 | |
154 | Eve Marie Shahoian | ||
155 | Jim Eve | 1899 | (1899-1978) sports administrator |
156 | Eve Garrison | 1903 | American painter |
157 | Eve Rotthoff | 1939 | German politician |
158 | Eve Sonneman | 1946 | American photographer |
159 | Eve Madison | 1982 | American pornographic actress |
160 | Eve Pownall | 1901 | Australian writer and historian |
161 | Eve Adamopoulos | ||
162 | Eve Gramatzki | 1935 | German artist |
163 | Eve Rudschies | 1959 | French writer |
164 | Eve Lipchik | 2000 | American psychotherapist |
165 | Eve Brenner | 1953 | American actress and singer |
166 | Eve Luik | ||
167 | Eve Malmquist | 1915 | |
168 | Eve Pormeister | ||
169 | Eve Tuck | ||
170 | Maria Louise Eve | 1848 | American poet |
171 | Eve Polycarpou | British singer | |
172 | Eve Jugandi | 1980 | Badminton player |
173 | Eve Lucas | 1973 | Botanist |
174 | Eve Sandler | ||
175 | Eve Armstrong | 1978 | |
176 | Ève Périsset | 1994 | French association football player |
177 | Eve Kopli |