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burney Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin) and Irish: habitational name from Bernay in Eure, France, named with a Gaulish personal name Brenno + the locative suffix -acum.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Biorna ‘son of Biorna’, a Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from björn ‘bear cub’, ‘warrior’).
  3. English: variant of Barney 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of burney Families in the US in 1920
Number of burney families
 88-174
 30-87		 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 154 - Messages: 449
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Moriah Burney/Bloomingdale, GA STEFANEEM1 15
Burney Family of North Carolina Leland Harper 44
African American BURNEY of Jasper County, Georgia laraspberry 13
HOMER BURNEY cynthianietoc 0
Orvis W. Burney of Evant, TX 1917 drbrownlee 0
Harriet Burney of Turnersville, TX 1917 drbrownlee 0
Mesh Burney of Madison County, FL laneypb 0
John Burney 1716-1765 pzzyb 2
Death of Mr. Charles J. Burney in Colombia, South America davwayell 0
Burney Family Reunion Leland Harper 13
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