The olney Surname
olney Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places called Olney in
Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. The former is named in Old
English as Ollaneg ‘island of a man called Olla’; the latter
is from Old English ana ‘one’, ‘single’, ‘solitary’ +
leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, with later metathesis of
-nl- to -ln-.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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