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The gorney Surname

gorney Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Gurney.
  2. Altered spelling of Polish Gorny.
  3. Possibly an altered spelling of German Gornig, Görnig, occupational names for a miner, from Polish góra ‘mountain’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gorney Families in the US in 1920
Number of gorney families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Threads: 10 - Messages: 21
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Edna Spychaj Gorney HGrenda 1
Gorney, Gurna, Gurney in Michigan mtnmom27 1
Stella and Fanny Gorney Victor Gorney 8
Gorny - IL? jenniferlehman1 0
GORNEY, Mabel born abt 1890 North Carolina, USA D.Smith 0
debra gorney Tacie Gorney 0
Gorney Family from W. Prussia (Poland) SAINT 1
looking for old friend elizabethbaker31 0
Ignatz Victor Joe Gorney LAvey4836 0
john gorney paull patterson 0
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