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Hi my grandmothers name was Olave pronounce O-Lay-ve I would like to give it to one of my daughters as a middle name BUT I don't no what it means or where it comes from. it offend gets confused with the male name Olaf but its said completely different. dose anyone no the meaning and Origen or even another Female with the name and where she is from .
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If you're in the UK, the name comes from St Olave, name of a former parish in Southwark, a village in Norfolk and several dedicated churches across the country. St Olave is actually an archaic spelling for St Olaf, but Olave has a long history of use on females here, probably because of its feminine-looking ending and similarity to Olive. So it could be considered (in the UK at least) as a female version of Olaf, which with the same meaning - 'ancestor's descendant' - would make a nice middle name for someone being named after her great-grandmother.
Other bearers: Lady Baden Powell, wife of the founder of the Scout movement, was an Olave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olave_Baden-Powell
Other bearers: Lady Baden Powell, wife of the founder of the Scout movement, was an Olave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olave_Baden-Powell
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