Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Phóil (see McFall).
- Irish: variant of Quill
1.
- English: from Middle English quaille ‘quail’, a nickname
for a timorous, lecherous, or fat person, all qualities that were
ascribed to the bird.
- In one family this is an Americanized form
of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental surname Kvalvaser, meaning
‘spring water’ in Yiddish.
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