Quayle Quayle Quayle is a surname of Anglo-Celtic origin, specifically English, Irish, Manx and Scottish. When the name originates from Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland it is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic "Mac Phàil" (Scottish) "Mac Phóil" (Irish) "Mac Phaayl" (Manx) meaning "son of "Pàil"/"Póil/Paayl"". These are Gaelic patronymic forms of the personal name "Paul". When originating in Ireland the name is sometimes a variant of the surname "Quill". When "Quayle" is of English origin the surname can be derived from the Old French/Middle English "quaille", meaning "quail". In this way the name would be used as a nickname
Kavanagh (surname) common being: "Kavanagh", "Cavanagh", "Kavanaugh" and "Cavanaugh". The surname was possibly adopted by Síl Fáelchán clansmen in preference to the earlier name "MacMurrough", given the prestige associated with the dynamic junior line that seized the chiefship of the Uí Cheinnselaig tribal group in the High Middle Ages. Kavanagh (surname) Kavanagh or Kavanaugh is a surname of Irish origin, Caomhánach in Irish Gaelic. It is properly "Mac Murchadha Caomhánach" (an example of an Irish agnomen; see "Ó Catharnaigh Sionnach" or Fox of Fir Teathbha), but is often now rendered 'Caomhánach' or rarely 'Ó Caomhánaigh'. "Kavanagh" and "Kavanaugh" are anglicised variations of