Dorney Family History
Dorney Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Buckinghamshire,
named from Old English dora ‘bee’ (genitive plural
dorena) + eg ‘island’, ‘dry ground in
marsh’.Irish (Counties Cork and Tipperary): reduced Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó Doirinne ‘descendant of Doireann’, a
female personal name meaning ‘sullen’.Americanized
spelling of Hungarian Dörnyei or Dörnyey,
habitational names for someone from a place called Dernye in former
Körös county.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dorney Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dorney families
 29 - 56  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dorney families
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24 - 45 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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