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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Ave

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (also Avé) : from Old French havet ‘hook’, ‘pick’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made picks or worked with a pick.
  • probably also Galician : either from a river name or from ave ‘bird’.

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