Yewa
A Hebrew name for "life", a giver of life, close kin to Ewa. Just 23 women in Poland carry it, and the record shows no newborns since 2000, so most Poles have never met one.
Yewa Pronunciation
Yewa is pronounced ih-E-vah (/ɨˈɛva/).
What Yewa means
Where Yewa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yewa begins in Hebrew, in Chava, the name later read as Eve. Its meaning stayed steady across languages: life, giver of life. Yewa reaches that same sense from Africa, where the biblical name settled into West African speech and took a new spelling.
The same Hebrew root gives Poland its Ewa, a name found in every parish book. Yewa stands beside Ewa like a cousin raised on another continent. The y at the front marks the difference. The meaning holds.
On a Polish class register, Yewa would sit a few lines above Ewa, near the top of the alphabet. A teacher reading it aloud meets an African form of an ancient word. What the word says has not moved since Chava: giver of life.
How many people are named Yewa
1 in 980167 women in Poland is named Yewa. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9204 among female names.