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Burney Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and Irish: habitational name from
Bernay in Eure, France, named with a Gaulish personal name
Brenno + the locative suffix -acum.Irish:
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Biorna ‘son of Biorna’, a
Gaelic form of the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from
björn ‘bear cub’, ‘warrior’).English: variant of
Barney 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Burney Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burney families
 88 - 174  30 - 87 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Burney families
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61 - 119 21 - 60 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burney families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Burney Family Origin
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