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From the female given name Ava and the feminine Latinate suffix -ian(n)a, or possibly from a feminine elaboration of the adjective avian (“of birds”) through the suffix -a.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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From the female given name Ava and the feminine Latinate suffix -ian(n)a, or possibly from a feminine elaboration of the adjective avian (“of birds”) through the suffix -a.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.