Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish : unexplained. Perhaps a respelling of Caw, a reduced form of McCaw.
- Possibly a variant of German Kur, an occupational name from Middle High German kure ‘officialinspector’ or Middle Low German kur(e) ‘scout’, ‘lookout’.
- Dutch : unexplained.
- Polish : perhaps an altered form of a topographic or habitational name from any of various places named with Slavic gora ‘mountain’.