What does the name Ava mean?

Q: What does the name Ava mean?

Ava means "Of uncertain meaning; used as a variant of Eva/Eve, an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife, or from an uncertain Germanic root". It is a girl's name of Germanic origin.

Ava

Ava means Of uncertain meaning; used as a variant of Eva/Eve, an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife, or from an uncertain Germanic root.

Gender	girl
Origin	Germanic
Language	English
Starts with	A

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Of uncertain meaning; used as a variant of Eva/Eve, an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife, or from an uncertain Germanic root”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Ayshath — Living, prosperous, Mappila variant
Liam — Short form of William, via Irish Uilliam
Munmun — Little one; beloved pet form used as formal name
Durba — Sacred grass used in rituals; evergreen
Kusha — Sacred grass used in Vedic rituals; twin son of Rama and Sita
Amelia — From a Germanic root meaning 'vigor, bravery'

More girls' names of Germanic origin

Emma — From a Frankish name element meaning 'whole, entire'
Mia — A German, Dutch, and North Germanic diminutive of Maria

Where this comes from

Ava has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.