In 2025, 8 US girls were named Evita, making it the 11,254th most common girls’ name of the year, down 714 places from #10,540 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 girls named Evita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #779, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 210. For comparison, it was #6,539 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Evita in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 6 babies. In all, 1,247 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 652 babies named Evita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 97 US girls were named Evita; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eva (285,768 babies since 1880) and Eve (29,510 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Evetta are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.