Avva

This article is about an archaic Russian name. For a 2008 Indian film, see Avva (film).

Avva (Russian: А́вва) is an old and uncommon 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]

See also

• Abba (given name)
• All pages with titles beginning with Avva
• All pages with titles containing Avva