Means “powerful, brave” in Dacian. This was the name adopted by Diurpaneus, a 1st-century king of Dacia. For many years he successfully resisted Roman expansion into his territory but was finally defeated by the forces of Emperor Trajan in 106.
Possibly from the name of the prayer Ave Maria, in which Ave is Latin meaning “greetings, salutations”. In Estonian it is also associated with the word ava meaning “open”.