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Casey m, now occasionally also f

English (esp. U.S.): 1 Bestowed originally in honour of the American engine-driver and folk hero ‘Casey’ Jones (1863–1900), who saved the lives of passengers on the ‘Cannonball Express’ at the expense of his own. He was baptized Johnathan Luther Jones in Cayce, Kentucky, and acquired his nickname from his birthplace.

2 From the Irish surname, the Gaelic form of which is Ó Cathasaigh ‘descendant of Cathasach’, a byname meaning ‘vigilant, wakeful’.

3 As a female name it is probably a variant of Cassie (see CASS (SEE Cass)).