How to write “Ava or Eva” in Korean
에바 e-ba
What Korean friends call you
- 에바야 e-ba-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 에바 씨 e-ba-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work
Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.
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Korean spellings of Ava
- 에바 4 (67%)
- 아바 2 (33%)
Korean labels of 6 people named Ava on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 에이바; most Koreans write 에바.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Ava Gardner 에바 (sometimes 에이바); Ava Max 에이바; Ava DuVernay 에바 (sometimes 에이바).
Well-known people named Ava or Eva, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Eva Perón — 에바 페론
- Eva Green — 에바 그린
- Eva Longoria — 에바 롱고리아
- Eva Marie Saint — 에바 마리 세인트
333,385 babies were named Ava in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 121st most common name.
Block by block
- 에 = ㅇ + ㅔ · 4 strokes
- 바 = ㅂ + ㅏ · 6 strokes
Also in 바: Sebastian 세바스찬 · Vanessa 바네사 · Levi 리바이
에바 takes 10 strokes in all.
More names: Jayden 제이든 · Hunter 헌터 · Aaron 애런 · Kayla 케일라 · Victoria 빅토리아
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