First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Galician (Aviña): probably from a topographic name for someone who lived by a vineyard, da viña ‘from the vineyard’, reinterpreted as d’Aviña.