Gaw Family History
Gaw Name Meaning
Irish (Down and Antrim) and Scottish: shortened form of McGaw which is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Ádhaimh ‘son of Adam’. Scottish: variant of Gall . German: variant (old) spelling of Gau . Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 敖 (see Ao ) and 吴 (see Wu ).Also variant of Gau .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022