Entry № 3172 · Hebrew origin

Eve Eve — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EEV /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Life (the first woman in the Bible; mother of all living)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "life (the first woman in the bible; mother of all living)".

Eve is from the Hebrew Chavah (חַוָּה) — from the root chai (life) — "to breathe, to live." The biblical Eve — the first woman, fashioned from Adam's side in the Garden of Eden, mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth, and through her sons the ancestress of all humanity (Genesis 2-4). "And Adam called his wife's name Chavah, because she was the mother of all living" (Genesis 3:20). Her conversation with the serpent and the eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is among the most painted scenes in Western art — by Michelangelo, Dürer, Cranach, Masaccio, and Klimt. Eve in mitochondrial genetics — "Mitochondrial Eve" — is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all living humans, who lived in Africa approximately 155,000 years ago.

Life (the first woman in the Bible; mother of all living) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

חַוָּה
Transliteration
Chavah
Pronunciation
/ iːv /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eve stands.

Eve does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Eves before her.

Real people
Eve
American rapper.
born 1978
In fiction
Eve
Book of Genesis.
Eve
Milton's Paradise Lost.
1667

Names connected to Eve.

The number behind Eve.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eve reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.