Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Middle English : Chubby

Girl name variations

Cavanaugh
Cavanagh
Kavanaugh

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : in Wexford, an Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Caomhánach ‘son of Caomhán’ (see Kevin). MacLysaght says that this is a famous branch of the MacMurroughs. The name is said to have been acquired from the first Kavanagh having been fostered by a follower of St. Caomhán.
  • Irish : Anglicization of Gaelic Mac an Mhanaigh ‘son of the monk’, from manach ‘monk’, a rare Mayo surname.

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