1. Variant of Eve. A famous bearer was the American actress Ava Gardner (1922-1990).
2. Means "voice, sound" in Persian.
3. Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element avi, of unknown meaning, possibly "desired". This was the name of a 9th-century Frankish saint. It was also borne by a 12th-century poet from Melk, Austria.