Given name
Efa
“giver of life; a lively woman”
Efa is a variant of Eva. One Hebrew interpretation is “giver of life; a lively woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Efa is a variant of Eva. One Hebrew interpretation is “giver of life; a lively woman.”
Explained through its name family
Efa’s family of names
Efa has a related form in Eva. In Welsh usage, Efa has a conventional equivalent in the German form Eva. In Greenlandic usage, Efa was borrowed from the Danish form Efraim.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Eveequivalent
- Efraimsource · Danish
- Eviequivalent
- Evitaequivalent
- Eevaequivalent
- Ievaequivalent
- Ewaequivalent
- Évaequivalent
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People named Efa
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