Abijah
Abijah (אביה 'aḆiYaH), alternatively spelled Abiah and Abia, in modern Hebrew Aviya, is a Biblical Hebrewunisex name that means "my Father is Yahweh".
Russian name
The variant used in the Russian language is "А́вия" (Aviya), with "А́бия" or "Аби́я" (Abiya), being older forms. Included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, it was omitted from the official Synodal Menologium at the end of the 19th century. In 1924–1930, the name (as "Ави́я", a form of "Abiya") was included into various Soviet calendars, which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia. In Russian it is only used as a female name.Diminutives of this name include "А́ва" (Ava) and "Ви́я" (Viya).
