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:
Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Caoimh (see O’Keefe). Gaelic c followed by a, o, or u is often Anglicized as q in Manx.