Americanized form of the Scandinavian and North German surname
Arne or of some other name with arn ‘eagle’ as a first
element.Perhaps an altered form of Norwegian Arnøy, a
habitational name from any of a number of farmsteads named for the
islands on which they stand; the original derivation of such names
being either from the Old Norse personal name Arni, or from
{o,}rn ‘eagle’ + øy ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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