What is "avda"

Avda may refer to:

• Avda (given name), a Russian male first name
• AVdA, abbreviation of Alternative Greens, a group merged into Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology, a regionalist political party in Italy
• American Veterinary Distributors Association (AVDA), one of the organizations that made appointments to the Health Industry Business Communications Council, a standard-setting organization for healthcare bar coding

Avda is an old and rare Russian Christian male first name. It is possibly derived from either the Biblical Hebrew word abdā, meaning (god's) slave, (god's) servant, or the Greek word audē, meaning speech, prophecy.

The patronymics derived from "Avda" are "" (Avdich; masculine) and "" (Avdichna; feminine).

"Avda" is also a colloquial form of the male first names Avdakt and Avdiky and a diminutive of the male first names Avdey and Avdon.