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bunney Name Meaning and History

English (Devon): possibly a nickname, as Reaney suggests, for someone having a prominent lump or swelling, from Middle English boni, buny ‘swelling’, ‘bunion’ (see Bunyan). It is also possibly a topographic name from the southwestern English dialect word bunny ‘ravine’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bunney Families in the US in 1920
Number of bunney families
 6-10
 3-5		 1-2
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Bunney's from Hampshire UK Sue Murrant 21
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