French (also Avé): from Old French havet
‘hook’, ‘pick’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who
made picks or worked with a pick. DEB, MTM.probably also Galician: either from a river name or from
ave ‘bird’. DK2.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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