as a First Name
From a Norman French form of the ancient Germanic name Aveza, derived from a short form of one or more compound names containing the first element av (as in Ava; the meaning is uncertain). The correspondence in form to the Latin word avis ‘bird’ is coincidental.
| 1,679th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,903
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 12,270
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Avis per capita
- 1912
- marked the height of its popularity
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