American poet Eavan Boland is a famous bearer of this name.
-- Anonymous User 6/22/2006
My best friend's name is Eavan and she hates it because everyone always thinks she is a boy before they meet her. So she nicknamed herself "Eabie" which is cute, but now people think she is named "Annie" instead which halso makes her mad. Haha.
I've loved this name since I studied Eavan Boland, an Irish poet, for my Leaving Certificate English. The first poet whose work I could actually understand (I hated poetry)!