Last name: HONEY
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HONEY : This last name is indexed 29,548 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HONEY : English (southern): nickname from Middle English honi(e) ‘honey’ (Old English hunig) perhaps given to someone with a sweet nature or for someone who kept bees or had a partiality for honey. The word was also commonly used in Middle English as a term of endearment with the sense ‘sweetheart’ which could be another source of the nickname.
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