What names mean spring?
Aviv and Aviva both refer to spring, the season. Aviv is Hebrew, and Aviva is its feminine form.
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Aviv Hebrew · spring, the season of renewal; a modern Israeli favorite (also the aviv of Tel Aviv)
Xuan Vietnamese · spring, the season
Haru Japanese · spring
Izumi Japanese · spring, fountain
Maayan Hebrew · spring, wellspring
Verna Latin · spring-like
Weldon English · well hill, spring hill
Bomi Korean · spring beauty
Aviva Hebrew · Hebrew for 'spring', the season
Haruko Japanese · spring child
Persephone Greek · goddess of spring
Haruki Japanese · clear, sunny spring (kanji-dependent); famously borne by Haruki Murakami, internationally bestselling novelist
Haruka Japanese · distant, spring fragrance
April Latin · the English month name, probably from Latin aperire, 'to open,' referring to flowers opening
Madhavi Tamil · a spring-flowering vine (from Sanskrit madhavi); the accomplished dancer of the Sangam-era epic Silappatikaram
Wells English · surname, "dweller by the spring"
Vernon French · place name, possibly 'alder grove' or 'place of the spring'
Laverne French · from 'la Verne,' the alder tree, or Latin vernus, 'spring-like'
Vernell Modern American · A 20th-century elaboration on Vernon or Verna, from Latin 'vernus', meaning of the spring.
Vernita Latin · an American elaboration of Verna, from Latin vernus, of spring, and the feminine form of Vernon
Chloe Greek · "young green shoot" in Greek; a name for Demeter, the harvest goddess, referring to new growth in spring. A woman named Chloe appears once in the New Testament. The name later became popular in France and in English-speaking countries
Bluebell English · woodland spring flower
Oanh Vietnamese · oriole, the songbird of spring poetry
Vernice Modern American · An American blend of Verna (Latin vernus, spring) and Bernice (Greek, bringer of victory).
Kelby Norse · An English surname from Old Norse kelda, spring, and by, farmstead, meaning settlement by the spring
Tuyen Vietnamese · a ray or line (as Tuyến), or spring water (as the feminine Tuyền)
Easter Old English · From Eastre/Eostre, the Old English word for the spring festival, of debated pre-Christian origin; given for birth near the holiday.
Vernie Uncertain · Disputed: a diminutive of Vernon (French, 'alder grove'), Verna (Latin, 'of spring'), or Veronica.
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