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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Latin: Birdlike
  2. Latin: A bird

First name variations: Avalee, Avelina, Aveline, Avelyn, Avlynn, Avada, Avae, Aveen, Ava, Avice

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: from the Norman female personal name Avice (Old French Avice, Latin Avitia, also found in a masculine form, Avitius). This is of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Celtic (Gaulish) name.
  2. French: Tanguay and Jetté have people named Avice, Avisse in Quebec from 1666. Nègre has an Avèze (Puy-de-Dome) also deriving from Avitius.