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Eva vs Evaluna

American parents have registered 285,768 Evas since 1880, against 930 Evalunas. Eva is still ahead, with 2,154 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eva against Evaluna, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eva Evaluna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Eva has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Eva had 2,576 and Evaluna had 175.

Side by side

  Eva Evaluna
Total US births 285,768930
Most in one year 4,575175
Babies in 2025 2,154119
Estimated living today 137,000930
Median age today 233
Peak year 19182022
Best rank 55th girls1,343rd girls
Rank in 2025 134th1,710th
First recorded 18802011
Girls / boys 284,761 / 1,007930 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Evas alive today are over 23; half the Evalunas are over 3. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Eva Evaluna
France 98,51525
England and Wales 30,4963

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Eva and Evaluna.