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:
Cornish: habitational name from places in the parishes of St. Allen and St. Michael Penkivel, so named from Cornish nans ‘valley’ + carow ‘deer’, ‘stag’ or garow ‘rough’.