Olivia vs Ava - What's the difference?
olivia | ava |
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* 1601 , Twelfth Night , Act I, Scene 1:
* 1766 , The Vicar of Wakefield :
* 1985 , Echoes , Arrow Books (2006), ISBN 978-0099498650, page 404:
. Popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.
* 1881 Mary E. Jackson: The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown , W.S.Bryan 1881, page 57
* 2004 Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel , HarperCollins, ISBN 0060528044, page 5
A city in Illinois.
A city in Missouri.
A town in New York.
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
English palindromes
As a proper noun olivia
is (female given name).As a verb ava is
to have, to own.olivia
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- O! when mine eyes did see Olivia first / Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence.
- I intended to call her after Aunt Grizel, but my wife who, during pregnancy, had been reading romances, insisted upon her being called Olivia . In less than another year we had another daughter, and now I was determined that Grizel should be her name; but a rich relation taking a fancy to stand godmother, the girl was, by her directions, called Sophia, so that we had two romantic names in the family, but I solemnly protest I had no hand in it.
- 'Olivia , that's a fine posh name for Castlebay,' he said approvingly. 'Ah, they're sick of these Davids and Clares and Gerrys, the dull old names,' Clare laughed. 'I hope they won't call her Olly,' David said. 'Make your own nickname then,' Gerry said. 'Livy?' Clare suggested. 'Liffey even?' Gerry said.
ava
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.
- My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.