Graveney

English

Etymology

From Old English græf (“grave; ditch, trench”) + īeġ (“island”).

Proper noun

Graveney (countable and uncountable, plural Graveneys)

1. A village in Graveney with Goodnestone parish, Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0562).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Graveney is the 31781^st most common surname in England, belonging to 112 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Graveney”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 78.