| Gender | Unisex |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | English |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Irish |
| Word/name | Ó Cadhla |
| Meaning | "descendant of Cadhla" |
| Other names | |
| See also | Cawley, MacCawley, McCawley, Crowley |
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
- ↑ O'Hart, John (1892), Irish Pedigrees; or, the origin and stem of the Irish nation, vol. 2 (5 ed.), Dublin: J. Duffy and Co., Limited, pp. 305–306.
- ↑ Ó Cadhla, Library Ireland (www.libraryireland.com), retrieved 15 December 2010, this web page is a transcription of: Woulfe, Patrick (1923), Irish Names and Surnames.
- ↑ Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000, United States Census Bureau (www.census.gov), archived from the original on 21 December 2009, retrieved 11 January 2011.
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