Ava

Where Ava comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ava.

  • Hebrew
  • Irish
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Ava through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #466 among girls, with 13 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1922
    Ava Gardner born
    American actress
  3. 1994
    Ava Max born
    American singer and songwriter
  4. 2016
    Peak, #3
    16,354 babies named Ava, its best rank.
  5. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #11.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.
  • A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife.
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.
Namesakes
  • Ava Gardner · American actress, 1922–1990
  • Ava Max · American singer and songwriter, born 1994
  • Ava DuVernay · American film director, born 1972
  • Ava Devine · American pornographic actress, born 1974
  • Ava · first known German poet, 1060–1127

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.