Horney Family History
Horney Name Meaning
German: Eastphalian form of a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements hard ‘hardy brave strong’ + nit ‘battle fury eagerness to fight’ or a habitational name from a place so called in Brandenburg or in the Rhineland. English: probably a habitational name from Horney Common in Maresfield (Sussex). The placename may derive from Old English hyrne ‘angle corner of land’ + (ge)hæg ‘fence enclosure’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022