O'Cawley

O'Cawley
Gender Unisex
Language(s) English
Origin
Language(s) Irish
Word/Name Ó Cadhla
Meaning "descendant of Cadhla"
Other names
See also Cawley, MacCawley, McCawley

O'Cawley is a surname in the English language. According to John O'Hart, a 19th century Irish genealogist, the surname is an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó Cadhla.[1] The Irish Ó Cadhla originated as a patronym, meaning "descendant of Cadhla". The masculine personal name Cadhla means "beautiful", "comely", "graceful".[2] In the United States of America the surname is extremely uncommon, and did not rank in the 2000 United States Census.[3]

References

  1. ^ O'Hart, John (1892), Irish Pedigrees; or, the origin and stem of the Irish nation, 2 (5 ed.), Dublin: J. Duffy and Co., Limited, pp. 305–306, http://www.archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar .
  2. ^ Ó Cadhla, Library Ireland (www.libraryireland.com), http://www.libraryireland.com/names/oc/o-cadhla.php, retrieved 15 December 2010 , this web page is a transcription of: Woulfe, Patrick (1923), Irish Names and Surnames .
  3. ^ Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000, United States Census Bureau (www.census.gov), http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/2000surnames/index.html, retrieved 11 January 2011 .