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The burney Surname

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.

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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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