Eve
The story
Eve descends from the Hebrew Ḥawwa, derived from a word meaning to breathe, or a related one meaning to live: the scholars keep both doors open. Genesis makes her the first woman, which gives this three-letter name the longest résumé in the book. The American record tells a stranger story: for a name everyone knows, Eve has always been scarce. It appears in every decade since the 1890s without ever crowding a classroom, rising to 2,609 girls in the 1960s, then three quieter decades before a second life: 4,792 in the 2000s, 6,355 in the 2010s, 3,455 so far this decade. The famous names are rarely the common ones. Eve has spent more than a century being universally recognized and personally rare, a combination the record does not offer often.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Eve peaked in the 1890s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
307 people · the #18,750 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 24
Among people named Eve living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 31 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Eve deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Eve truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Eve fits with your family’s names and surname.
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