Last name: HANEY

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HANEY : This last name is indexed 47,987 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

HANEY : 1: Scottish or Irish: perhaps a variant of Irish Heaney.2: Americanized form of Norwegian Hanøy a habitational name from any of the four farmsteads so named from Old Norse hathna ‘young nanny-goat’ or hani ‘cock’ (probably indicating a crag or mountain resembling a cock's comb in shape) + øy ‘island’.3: Americanized form of any of several like-sounding Jewish surnames.

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