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[Facts] name Avara
in your archives there is a message regards name Avara and its origins, with suggestion that it may be finnish for 'wide open space'. My daughter was named Avara from an australian and new zealand baby name book which listed its origin as Sanskrit and meaning as youngest.
regards michelle
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Baby name books can be imaginative, but ava- means Down, so maybe she's the furthest down the family age list?I'd stay with the Finnish or Sanskrit if I was you; there was a bunch of barbarian invaders of Europe in about the 7th century called the Avars, and in Latin Avara means Greedy.How do you pronounce it? AV a rah? a-VAY-ra? Sounds pretty either way ...
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