Avani
Avani is a girl name of Sanskrit origin, meaning The earth.
What Avani means
The earth.
Avani sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Avani comes from
Sanskrit names draw on a devotional and literary tradition thousands of years old. Many are epithets of deities or qualities from classical texts, which is why their meanings tend to be abstract virtues rather than objects.
Avani is recorded as Sanskrit in origin. Browse other Sanskrit names.
How popular is Avani?
Avani sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Avani
Two ideas meet in Avani: Earth and the natural world. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Avani
These share Avani's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Avni — The earth.
- Bradley — Broad meadow.
- Bryn — Hill; a high mound.
- Camden — Winding valley.
- Canyon — A deep gorge in the earth.
- Dale — From the valley.
- Glen — From the valley.
- Heath — The open moorland.
- Holden — From the deep valley.
- Landon — From the long hill.
- Logan — From the little hollow.
- Mauna — Mountain.