Horney Family History
- Horney Name Meaning
- German: Eastphalian or Americanized form of a personal name composed of the 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 derivative of Horn.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 86,308 Historical Documents with Horney on Ancestry
- 26,117 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 16,793 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,804 Military Records
- 1,731 Immigration Records
- 37,863 Member Trees
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Number of Horney families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Horney families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Horney census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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