Aviva is a female first name. It is a modern Hebrew name meaning springlike, dewy, or fresh.
Russian first name
The name was borrowed into the
Russian language
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as non-canonicalPetrovsky, pp. 28 and 34 "" (''Aviva'').Petrovsky, p. 34 Its masculine version is Aviv, with "Aviva" also being one of its possible
diminutive
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The diminutives of "Aviva" are Avivka () and Viva ().
People with this name
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Aviva (singer)
Shuki Levy ( he, שוקי לוי; born June 3, 1947) is an Israeli-American music composer and television producer. Levy's best known work is soundtrack compositions for children's television programs of the 1980s, such as ''The Real Ghostbusters ...
Aviva Chomsky
Aviva Chomsky (born April 20, 1957) is an American teacher, historian, author, and activist. She is a professor of history and the Coordinator of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She previo ...
(b. 1957), American academic
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Aviva Dautch
Aviva Dautch (born 5 May 1978) is a British poet, academic, curator and magazine publisher, who is of Eastern European Jewish ancestry.
Work
She has been writer in residence at the British Museum, the Jewish Museum London and thSeparated Child ...
(b. 1978), British poet, academic and curator
* Aviva Drescher, cast member who joined ''The Real Housewives of New York City'' in season 5
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Aviva Gileadi
Aviva E. Gileadi (In Hebrew: אביבה גלעדי, born Eva Fischmann November 26, 1917 – June 8, 2001) was an Israeli nuclear scientist, a professor at the Israel Institute of Technology ( Technion) in the department of Nuclear Engineering. ...
(1917–2001), Israeli nuclear scientist
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Aviva Kempner
Aviva Kempner (born December 23, 1946) is a German-born American filmmaker. Her documentaries investigate non-stereotypical images of Jews in history and focus on the untold stories of Jewish people. She is most well known for ''The Life and Time ...
Aviva Slesin
Aviva Slesin is a documentary film-maker.
Slesin was awarded the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table in 1987. She is member of the Directors Guild of Americ ...
, Lithuanian documentary filmmaker
* Aviva Uri (1922–1989), Israeli painter
Fictional characters
* Aviva Corcovado, one of the main characters in '' Wild Kratts'', an American-Canadian children's animated series
* Aviva Masters, one of the main characters in the 2007 film '' Primeval''