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haney Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: probably a variant of Hanney.
  2. Scottish or Irish: reduced form of McHaney.
  3. Americanized spelling of Norwegian Hanøy, a habitational name from any of four farmsteads so named, from Old Norse haðna ‘young nanny-goat’ or hani ‘cock’ (probably indicating a crag or mountain resembling a cock’s comb in shape) + øy ‘island’.
  4. Jewish (American): Americanized form of various like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish names.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The haney name in History

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Distribution of haney Families in the US in 1920
Number of haney families
 232-462
 78-231		 1-77
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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