Olney Family History
Olney Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Olney Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Olney families
 49 - 96  17 - 48 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Olney families
|
89 - 176 30 - 88 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Olney last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Olney Family Origin
Olney Immigration Information
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Olney Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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