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The ney Surname

ney Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Nye.
  2. Irish: reduced form of O’Ney.
  3. North German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Neu. The Jewish surname may sometimes be a shortened form of a name such as Neuburger.
  4. German: habitational name from a place near Boppard.
  5. North German: nickname from Middle Low German ni(g)e, ney(g)e ‘(the) new one’.
  6. Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Aarnoud (see Arnold).
  7. Dutch (de Ney): variant of Nay 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ney Families in the US in 1920
Number of ney families
 95-187
 32-94		 1-31
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Threads: 90 - Messages: 286
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Ney family Catherine Macleod 11
Ney family from County Cavan Ireland mfjudde 7
Neu / Ney / Nye Family Tree in PA ShaffnerJr 12
looking for more information kayla0227 2
Nicholas Ney, died 12/27/1910 in Glendale, New Jersey. Bob_MacAvoy 0
Katherine Ney shilo762 8
Obituary: Dorothy R. (Crabtree) Ney/ Jim Thorpe, PA 8-17-07 MaggieKistner 0
Ney family SandraPlumley55 3
My Ney's---Neu's hur2pau 0
Long, Browning, Stanton surnames / Ney LLsabin 1
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