81%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage English (Rare) Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Created by L. M. Montgomery as the setting for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). She may have based the name on the Arthurian island of Avalon, though it also resembles the river name Avon and leah "woodland, clearing". People think this name isRate·Details classic youthful formal upper class natural wholesome delicate refined strange complex serious Categories invented, literature, place names, rare English
