Ava is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
In the US, Ava is one of the most popular names ever. In the SmartGenius ranking recently, it has regularly been among the top 10 most common girls names and is currently in place 5. In fact, one out auf 300 girls under the age of 10 is named Ava. In the entire USA, approximately 301,136 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ava. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
The origin of the name Ava is not entirely clear. On the one hand, it can go back to the Latin word “avis” for “bird” on the other hand it comes from the Old High German word “aval” for “power, strength” and thus give the meaning “the strong one”. At the same time, the name is also found in Persian-speaking areas such as Iran, where Ava is translated as “pleasant sound”.
Did you know? that Ava is also place name? On the one hand it was the name of an ancient capital of Myanmar, on the other hand it is name of a city in Missouri.
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When you hear the name Ava, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Ava? Are you also called Ava? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
There are several cities and communities in the United States that bear the name Ava. For example, a town in the US state of New York.
In Seattle, a residential skyscraper was to be built that would have 48 floors and be named Ava (stylized as AVA)
was a steamship built in Glasgow in 1855 and named after the ancient capital of Burma "Ava".
or Ava Kingdom was a state from 1364 to 1555 in modern Myanmar (Burma), named after its capital, now Inwa.
In the Central District of Talesh County, Gilan Province, Iran lies a small village called Ava.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Ava is one of them. However, Ava is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Nevada seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,025 women called Ava who live here are 0,463% of all female residents and push their name up to #40, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Nevada.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With only three letters, the name Ava is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Ava and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ava, you can simply say:
Apple
Violin
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ava
Ava
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
V
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
V
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ava sounds like this:
