Avva

Avva (Russian: А́вва) is an old and rare Russian male first name.^[1] Included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, it was omitted from the official Synodal Menologium at the end of the 19th century.^[2] It may have derived from the Biblical Hebrew word abba, meaning father.^[1]

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• А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-699-14090-5