Names

Means “good news” in Armenian.

From a surname that was itself derived from the Norman French form of the given names Alberich or Alfred.

From a surname that was originally derived from the feminine given name Eoforhild.

Variant of Avery.

Old Church Slavic form of Abner.

Russian form of Abner.

From the Norman French form of the Germanic name Avelina, a diminutive of Avila. The Normans introduced this name to Britain. After the Middle Ages it became rare as an English name, though it persisted in America until the 19th century [1].

Diminutive of Avila.

Western Armenian transcription of Avetis.

Possibly from the name of the prayer Ave Maria, in which Ave is Latin meaning “greetings, salutations”. In Estonian it is also associated with the word ava meaning “open”.