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The gorny Surname

gorny Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name for someone from a place called Górne.
  2. from the adjective górny ‘upper’, ‘superior’, applied either as a topographic name for someone who lived in the upper part of a settlement, etc., or as a nickname for someone considered to have superior abilities.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gorny Families in the US in 1920
Number of gorny families
 18-33
 7-17		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Erie Daily Times - Friday 21 Dec 1928 Arzeltha_Knight 0
Edna Spychaj Gorney (Gorny) of Buffalo NY HGrenda 0
Gorny Eric Gorny 1
Gorny WGF 0
Gorny in IL? jenniferlehman1 0
Gorny's-Gorney Loren Avey 14
Gorny Mary Kruschek 4
Robert/Margaret/Susan/Paulette Gorny/OH Winifred McNamara Howard 4
GORNY' FROM POLAND LOREN AVEY 6
Gornys (Gorneys) fromBromberg (Bydogoszczy) SAINT 2
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