In 2025, 577 US girls were named Eve, making it the 519th most common girls’ name of the year, up 48 places from #567 in 2024. That is 45 more than the 532 girls named Eve in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #414, reached in 1907. The most girls given the name in a single year was 732, in 2017. For comparison, it was #473 in 2015 and #852 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eve in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 7 babies with the name. In all, 29,510 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,355 babies named Eve.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,263 US girls were named Eve; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 732. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,786 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eve ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #126 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eva (285,768 babies since 1880), Evita (1,247 babies since 1880), Ivy (86,173 babies since 1880) and Evie (21,949 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Evia, Evee and Evvie are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.