English: habitational name from places in Cumbria and Hertfordshire
named Corney, from Old English corn ‘grain’ or corn, a
metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + eg
‘island’. It seems possible, from the distribution of early forms,
that it may also derive from a lost place in Lancashire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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