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Nameguide
Nameguide You can find the meaning of a name and where it comes from here

Aviaaja

that the girls name Aviaaja comes from the Eastern Greenlandic word aaviaaja  which means cousin. And that the name Aviaq means relation or family in Western Greenlandic.

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