English: habitational name from any of various places, in
Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so
called from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’
Irish: English surname adopted by
bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or
Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal
name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as
Hunt (see Fee).
Jewish (Ashkenazic):
Americanized form of various like-sounding names, for example
Finkelstein (see Funke).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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