Eeva
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eeva is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Eve.
- FIFinland1 in 225◐
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- SESweden1 in 9.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈26K ●
- Sources
- 80 ●
- 1 in 225 ◐
across 8 countries
5.7K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Eve
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #66 | 24,737△ | 3.2K rec. | 1 in 225 | 52K | Eeva | 75 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,058△ | 303 rec. | 1 in 9.6K | 1.1K | Eeva | 28 |
| EE Estonia | #737 | 423 | 85 rec. | — | 252 | Eeva | 17 |
| US United States | — | 257 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 257 | Eeva | 80 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 184 | 155 rec. | — | listed | Eeva | 33 |
| AU Australia | — | 169 | 155 rec. | — | — | Eeva | 30 |
| DE Germany | — | 157 | 140 rec. | — | — | Eeva | 37 |
| NO Norway | — | 87 | 19 rec. | — | 64 | Eeva | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | 68 | 62 rec. | — | 1 | Eeva | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 61 | 52 rec. | — | — | Eeva | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 23△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 255K | 23 | Eeva | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 20 | 16 rec. | 1 in 864K | 20 | Eeva | 4 |
Roughly 25K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 225). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish184K96%
- English2.2K1%
- Chinese1K1%
- Estonian5221%
- Spanish5051%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 183,710 | 96% |
| English | 2,216 | 1% |
| Chinese | 1,004 | 1% |
| Estonian | 522 | 1% |
| Spanish | 505 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Eeva is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Eeva är en finsk stavning av → Eva.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Estonian, Eve (wife of Adam)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,176 |
| 2000 | 1,165 |
| 2001 | 1,147 |
| 2002 | 1,125 |
| 2003 | 1,110 |
| 2004 | 1,083 |
| 2005 | 1,056 |
| 2006 | 1,038 |
| 2007 | 1,015 |
| 2008 | 996 |
| 2009 | 977 |
| 2010 | 957 |
| 2011 | 951 |
| 2012 | 925 |
| 2013 | 899 |
| 2014 | 880 |
| 2015 | 853 |
| 2016 | 825 |
| 2017 | 789 |
| 2018 | 767 |
| 2019 | 747 |
| 2020 | 715 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Eeva Joenpeltob. 1921FIFinnish writer (1921-2004)
- Eeva Kauppib. 1921FIFinnish politician
- Kyllikki Virolainenb. 1924FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician and journalist (1924–2009)
- Eeva Kilpib. 1928FIFinnish author and poet (1928–2026)
- Eeva Ruoppab. 1932FIcross-country skier
- Eeva Ahtisaarib. 1936FIFinnish history teacher, First Lady
- Eeva Tikkab. 1939FIFinnish writer
- Eva Polttilab. 1946FInot in their usual nameFinnish journalist and news presenter
- Eeva Putrob. 1978FIFinnish film actor, actor and stage actor
- Eeva Kallib. 1981FIFinnish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 52K | #51 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 25K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.1K | #1,632 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 1K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 63 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Eeva?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Eeva (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Eeva have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 25 thousand people bear Eeva in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eeva.
- Where is Eeva most common?
- Eeva is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 225 people carrying it.
- How common is Eeva compared with other names?
- In Finland, Eeva is the 66th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Eeva a male or female name?
- Eeva is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Eeva mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Eve
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eeva” — the 66th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.