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Finnish
Etymology
From aava (“open sea”), occasionally recorded since early 20th century. Popularised in the 2000s decade partly through association with the fashionable English Ava.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aava
- a female given name
2013, Pauliina Rauhala, Taivaslaulu, Gummerus, →ISBN, page 219:Kaisla Tuulia syntyi yhdeksän kuukauden päästä vihkipäivästä. Kun Aava Meri Ilona ilmoitti tulostaan Kaislan ollessa nelikuinen, [ - - - ]- Kaisla Tuulia was born nine months from the wedding day, When Aava Meri Ilona announced her coming when Kaisla was still four months old,
2013, Kirsti Ellilä, Kaivatut, Karisto, →ISBN, pages 51–52:Että hänkö muka ei ymmärtänyt tytärtään ja Aava ymmärsi? Jo pelkkä nimi Aava kuohutti häntä edelleen, vaikka siitä oli jo toistakymmentä vuotta, kun Riitta oli päättänyt, että vanhempien antama nimi oli toivottoman tylsä. Henrik mietti oliko elämä todella niin yksinkertaista. Muutit nimesi ja muutuit myös itse.- That he hadn't supposedly understood his daughter and Aava had? Just the name Aava still made him agitated, even though it had already been over twenty years since when Riitta had decided that the name given by the parents was hopelessly dull. Henrik thought whether life could really be that simple, that you change your name and thus also change yourself.
2015, Elina Hirvonen, Kun aika loppuu, WSOY, →ISBN, page 65:Ensimmäinen lapsi oli tyttö. Annoimme hänelle nimeksi Aava Hilda Amanda. Hilda ja Amanda, minun äidinäitini ja Eerikin isänäiti, kaksi naista, jotka tekivät töitä aamusta iltaan mutta eivät koskaan lakanneet hymyilemästä. Ja aava meri, jota minä rakastin ja opetin myös Eerikin rakastamaan.- The first child was a girl. We named her Aava Hilda Amanda. Hilda and Amanda, my grandmother (mother's mother) and Eerik's grandmother (father's mother), two women that had worked from dawn till dusk yet never stopped smiling. And the open sea, that I loved and taught Eerik to love too.
Declension
Statistics
- Aava is the 214th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,768 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,613 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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