Traditionally a female given name, its modern usage is unisex.

[5][better source needed] The name refers to dew, the phenomenon of water droplets that occur on exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation.

William Dwight Whitney's Century Dictionary of 1889 defines "avital" as "pertaining to a grandfather; ancestral", giving its root as the Latin avus, lit. 'grandfather'.

[8] Alternatively, Mount Avital/Tall Abu an Nada (Hebrew: הר אביטל, Har Avital, Arabic: تل أبو الندى, Tall Abu an Nada) is a mountain that is part of a dormant volcano in the Golan Heights.

Abital gave birth to David's fifth son, Shephatiah, another minor biblical character.