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 a place in St. Enoder parish, so called from Cornish nans ‘valley’ + an uncertain second element, possibly cerwys, an unattested plural of carow ‘stag’.