American Family Name Origins:
Caccavale
Frequency: (234)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: of uncertain derivation; perhaps from cacare ‘to shit’ + vale ‘valley’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 23%. Salvatore (5), Carmine (2), Gino (2), Sal (2), Gaetano, Gennaro, Guido, Luca, Marco, Onofrio, Rocco.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
