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[Opinions] Aviya (boy)

by araslanka

9/7/2015, 2:30 PM

What do you think of Aviya? Boy's name. I really love it... I have a soft spot of boy's names ending in -a and kind of wish I didn't live in a mostly English-speaking country so they'd be more usable.

And, if you feel in the mood, care to suggest any boy's names that someone who loves Aviya might like?

Leo Alexander - b. 2012

Maeve Luna & Tamsin Rose - b. 2014

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- kudriashkajo (jodirae) +1

9/8/2015, 5:17 AM

I would guess that an Aviya would be a girl. And it sound exactly like the shoe brand Avia. So not unusable, but I'd say those are two pretty big drawbacks for me.

Edited to add:
How about Sascha and Micaiah?

This message was edited 9/8/2015, 5:18 AM

- araslanka

9/8/2015, 2:45 PM

Mm, I suspected that most people would say they thought it was for a girl. I didn't know about the shoe brand though, and now two people have mentioned it. I'd probably have to find out just how well-known this shoe brand was if I was planning to use Aviya.

Sascha is nice, and so is Micaiah. Micaiah belongs to a bundle of names that I love: Moredcai, Morcant, Malakai, Micah, Mihai...

Thankyou (:

- whim +1

9/8/2015, 4:17 AM

I prefer a simpler Avi.

Aviya is decidedly femnine in my mind. That's because Avia was one of my top girls names many years ago. Not that I have a problem with that, I love feminine names on boys.

You may like Sascha.

- araslanka

9/8/2015, 2:41 PM

I think I'd like Avi too, if it wasn't for the author. I can't bear those books he writes.

And, I do like Sascha, though I prefer Sasha.

Thankyou (:

- Julia (JuliaF) +1

9/7/2015, 6:51 PM

Quite pretty...but on a girl. I would never have guessed it was a boys' name. Abijah seems much more masculine, though I can't say I like that either.

Some ideas:
Avi
Jonah
Josiah
Luca
Zachariah
Hosea (ho-ZAY-ah)
Elijah
Asa
Micah
Isaiah

- araslanka

9/8/2015, 12:32 PM

Mm, I'm don't like Abijah much. I guessed that most people would say it sounds like it should be for a girl, though I can't see it myself.

Your ideas are excellent. Many of them (Luca, Elijah, Asa, Micah) are favourite of mine already. Thank you (:

- RoxStar +1

9/7/2015, 6:03 PM

To me it sounds like a female name, but that's only secondary to the fact that it sounds like Avia, the shoe brand.

- araslanka

9/7/2015, 8:33 PM

There's a brand called Avia? Damn... I didn't know.

- Pie +1

9/7/2015, 4:36 PM

It's new to me, but I like it, and -a names on men in general. I've known quite a few people with them (including an ex and my husband's boss) so they don't seem strange to me, though I'd be unlikely to use a foreign name myself.
Akiva, Akira, Alyosha & Attila come to mind as similar names.
Béla, Dima, Dara, Derya, Sacha / Sasha, Shiva, Takuya, Tatsuya, Yuuta & Yura are good too.

- araslanka

9/7/2015, 8:30 PM

I've known a few people with them as well, and in my own language -a endings aren't strictly feminine. But most English speakers who I talk with seem to think that any name that ends in A sounds like a girls' name, which can make things kind of difficult.

Alyosha and Yura are both new to me, and I really like them. Dara, Derya, and Sasha are favourites of mine.

Thankyou!

This message was edited 9/7/2015, 8:31 PM

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