Yeva
A newcomer to Poland's rolls: barely used a decade ago, it arrived in force in the 2020s and is still climbing, given entirely to girls. The Ukrainian form of Eve, from Hebrew for "life", so meeting one here is still a small event.
Yeva Pronunciation
What Yeva means
Where Yeva comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yeva is the Ukrainian form of the name English speakers know as Eve. It goes back to the Hebrew Chavah, built on a root that points toward living and breath. Genesis reads that name as the mother of all the living, and the meaning "life" travelled with it across languages until it settled in Ukrainian as Yeva.
In Polish the meaning lands as życie. That single word does a lot of work. The name is short, two syllables, easy for a Ukrainian child to answer to on a class register or an official form at the urząd. It crosses borders without changing shape.
Yeva belongs to families who keep a Ukrainian thread and reach for something very old at once. The link to Chavah is not folklore. It is among the oldest recorded names in the Hebrew scriptures, and its meaning has held steady: life, życie, Yeva.
How many people are named Yeva
1 in 3100 women in Poland is named Yeva. 7,275 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #417 among female names.
Yeva's popularity over time
90 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #261 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.
Where Yeva is most popular
Yeva is most popular in Łódź, 158% above the national average (46 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+90%) and Masovian (+44%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Subcarpathian, 66% and 59% below average respectively.
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Łódź46 girls born+158%
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Lower Silesian42 girls born+90%
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Masovian72 girls born+44%
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Lesser Poland37 girls born+16%
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Pomeranian20 girls born−3%
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Świętokrzyskie7 girls born−10%
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Greater Poland27 girls born−11%
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Silesian25 girls born−22%
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Lubusz5 girls born−28%
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Opole4 girls born−38%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian8 girls born−48%
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Subcarpathian7 girls born−59%
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West Pomeranian4 girls born−66%
Yeva as a middle name
Yeva is a first name for 7,275 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3898th, between Yeni (5) and Yildiz (5).
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3896
5Yaroslava
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3897
5Yeni
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38985Yeva
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3899
5Yildiz
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3900
5Yocheved