Given name
Ewa
“giver of life; a lively woman”
Ewa is a variant of Eva. One Hebrew interpretation is “giver of life; a lively woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ewa is a variant of Eva. One Hebrew interpretation is “giver of life; a lively woman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ewa is a form of Eve. An origin associated with Eve is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Polish use, Ewa is used as a form of Eve.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ewa is a form of Eve. The history of Eve gives this family its wider story. Eve has a place in biblical naming traditions.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Ewa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 296
- 0 boys · 296 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 13 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,890 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.
Ewa’s family of names
In Polish usage, Ewa has a diminutive in Ewcia. Ewa has a related form in Eva. In Polish usage, Ewa has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Eva.
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Around the world
Ewa has relatives in 7 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Evebase name · English
- Chavaequivalent
- Awaequivalent
- Eviequivalent
- Evitaequivalent
- Eevaequivalent
- Ievaequivalent
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People named Ewa
- Ewa KopaczVice President of the European Parliamentborn 1956
- Ewa FarnaPolish-Czech singerborn 1993
- Ewa PajorPolish association football playerborn 1996
- Ewa KłobukowskaPolish sprinterborn 1946
- Ewa DemarczykPolish singer, actress (1941–2020)
- Ewa SwobodaPolish sprinterborn 1997
- Ewa LipskaPolish writer (1945-)
- Ewa AulinSwedish actressborn 1950
- Ewa SonnetPolish glamour model and pop singerborn 1983
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