Today we honor Adam & Eva. Happy Name Day, Adam & Eva!
The name Adam is of Hebrew origin and means "earth". In Hebrew, it is a generic term for "man". In the Genesis account, he was the first man created from the red earth of Eden. The name was borne by a seventh-century Irish abbot of Fermo, Italy. The name has been steadily used from the middle ages until the 1700s, and again beginning in the 1970s. It's an appropriate name for the first boy in a family that has produced many girls.
I'm very excited for it to be Eva's name day too because that's my name! Happy Name Day to me!
The name Eva is also of Hebrew origin and means "life, living one". Eva was originally the equivalent of Eve in many non-English speaking countries; it was later adopted by English speakers in the mid-19th century.
