First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Southern Italian (Naples): derogatory nickname from dialect cacace ‘wicked’, from medieval Greek kakakēs, a diminutive of kakos ‘bad’, ‘wicked’.