Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Dweller on the island
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Adeney in Shropshire, named in Old English as Ēadwynna ey ‘island of a woman called Ēadwynn’.
- English : from a Middle English pet form of Adam. Forms such as Adenet, Adinot, Addy, and Adey are all well attested.
- English : Possibly an Americanized spelling of Norwegian Aadnøy, a habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse {o,}rn ‘eagle’ + øy ‘island’.