Ave Family History

North German: habitational name from a place in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania so named. Galician: nickname from ave ‘bird’ or Latin Ave Maria ‘Hail Mary’ (see 3 below).

French (Avé): nickname for a precentor from Latin Ave Maria ‘Hail Mary’ the angelic salutation to the Virgin Mary used as a devotional recitation with the addition (in more recent times) of a prayer to the Virgin as Mother of God.

French (Avé): variant of Havet from Old French havet ‘hook pick’ hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made picks or worked with a pick.