Name of Mexico of the country is the "United Mexican States" (), since it is a federation of thirty-two states. The official name was first used in the Constitution of 1824, and was retained in the constitutions of 1857 and 1917. Informally, "Mexico" is used along with "Mexican Republic" ("República Mexicana"). On 22 November 2012, outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón proposed changing the official name of the country to "México". Anahuac (meaning land surrounded by water) was the name in Nahuatl given to what is now Mexico during Pre-Hispanic times. When the Spanish conquistadors besieged México-Tenochtitlan in 1521, it was almost completely destroyed.
Ava (given name) Ava (given name) Ava is a feminine given name in the English and in other languages. Its recent popularity may be linked to a number of celebrity babies of the 1990s, who were ultimately named after American actress Ava Gardner (who had died in 1990). The medieval name "Ava" is an abbreviation of a Germanic name containing the first element "aw-", of uncertain meaning. Old High German (8th to 9th centuries) dithematic feminine names with this element include "Avagisa, Avuldis, Awanpurc, Auwanildis". Saint Ava was a 9th-century princess, daughter of Pepin II of Aquitaine. Ava was also the name of