Dabney Family History
Dabney Name Meaning
Altered form of French Daubigné a habitational name with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’ for someone from any of various places in France called Aubigné including one in Deux-Sèvres named with the Gallo-Roman personal name Albinius (a derivative of Latin albus ‘white’; compare Albin ) + the habitational suffix -acum. The surname Daubigné is found mainly in Charente-Maritime. English (of Norman origin): variant of Daubney a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022