Entry № 1933 · Hebrew origin

Chava Chava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Life"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "life".

Chava is a variant spelling of Eve, the Hebrew Chava, meaning life.

Life — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Chava
Transliteration
Chava
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Chava stands.

Chava does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Chavas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Chava.

The number behind Chava.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chava reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.