Last name: KAVANAGH
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KAVANAGH : This last name is indexed 86,002 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KAVANAGH : Irish: from Caomhánach an adjectival epithet meaning ‘belonging to (Saint) Caomhán’ whose personal name means ‘little beautiful one’. Etymologically the first part of the name is the same as that in Kevin.
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