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The forney Surname

forney Name Meaning and History

  1. Of German origin (also found in Alsace and French Switzerland): perhaps a variant of Farner. Compare Fahrni.
  2. The surname is also found in England and could be a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. Compare Farney, Furney.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of forney Families in the US in 1920
Number of forney families
 122-242
 41-121		 1-40
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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