Given name
Eavan
“God is gracious”
Eavan is a variant of Evana. In English use, Evana carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eavan is a variant of Evana. In English use, Evana carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Irish use, Eavan is used as a form of Gaelic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eavan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 182
- 6 boys · 176 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 255 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eavan’s family of names
Eavan has a related form in Evana. Eavan is an English adaptation of Aoibheann.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eavan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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