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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of several places in Cheshire called Finney or from Fenay in West Yorkshire, probably named from Old English fīnig ‘heap’ (especially one of wood), or from Old English and Old Norse finn ‘coarse grass’ + (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’.

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