Birney

English

Alternative forms

• Birnie

Etymology

Scottish habitational surname from a place in Morayshire, probably from Scottish Gaelic braonach (“misty, wet, damp”).

Proper noun

Birney (plural Birneys)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Birney is the 18751^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1463 individuals. Birney is most common among White (93.1%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Birney”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 164.

Anagrams

• Briney, briney, byrnie