Hava
Only about 59 women in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns given the name since 2000. Most Poles have never met one. Hebrew at root, meaning "life".
Hava Pronunciation
What Hava means
Where Hava comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hava comes straight from Hebrew, where Chavah names the first woman, the one Genesis 3:20 calls the mother of all living. The name sits close to the Hebrew word for life, and that is the sense Jewish families have kept in it. In English Bibles she became Eve. In the older Hebrew she stayed Chavah, and Hava is how that sound travels into Latin script.
The short meaning is life, życie, and it is not a decoration added later. It is there in the biblical verse that explains the name.
Hava carries a long Jewish history. It appears on Ashkenazi and Sephardi records alike, a Hebrew name passed down without a Polish diminutive attached to it. A registrar at a Polish urząd writing it today records four letters and a very old word. That word is life.
How many people are named Hava
1 in 382099 women in Poland is named Hava. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4812 among female names.
Hava as a middle name
Hava is a first name for 59 women in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1667th, between Gisele (19) and Hila (19).
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#1665 Elwina19
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#1666 Gisele19
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#1667 Hava19
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#1668 Hila19
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#1669 Hà19