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carney Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catharnaigh ‘descendant of Catharnach’, a byname meaning ‘warlike’.
  2. Irish: reduced form of McCarney.
  3. Irish: variant of Cairney.
  4. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cearnaigh ‘descendant of Cearnach’. Compare Kearney.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of carney Families in the US in 1920
Number of carney families
 413-823
 138-412
 1-137
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