Khava Khava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Khava is from the Chechen Хава (*Khava*) — Chechen + Caucasian rendition of Hebrew *Chavva* (חַוָּה — Eve, life-giver). **A modern American baby name in the broader Chechen-Caucasian heritage aesthetic**. **Khava** is one of the foundational Chechen + Ingush feminine names — central to traditional Chechen Sunni Muslim + pre-Islamic Vainakh Indigenous heritage. The foundational Chechen-Ingush *Vainakh* (our people) cultural family includes foundational Chechen + Ingush + Bats peoples + central to North Caucasus Indigenous heritage. Foundational subject of foundational Chechen literature + foundational Chechen + Ingush cultural revival post-1991 Soviet collapse + foundational Anatoly Pristavkin's foundational **The Inseparable Twins** (*Nochevala Tuchka Zolotaya*, 1987) anti-deportation Chechen-themed novel. Foundational Chechen feminine name reflecting Vainakh + North Caucasian Indigenous heritage.

Featured throughout Chechen heritage.