The burney Surname
burney Name Meaning and History
- English (of Norman origin) and Irish: habitational name from Bernay in Eure, France, named with a Gaulish personal name Brenno + the locative suffix -acum.
- 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’).
- English: variant of Barney 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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