Spinney Family History
Spinney Name Meaning
English: from Middle English spyn(n)eye ‘spinney’ i.e. a small patch of woodland clump of trees (Old French espinei ‘place where thorn trees grow’). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a thicket or small copse or habitational from a place so named such as Spinney Abbey in Wicken (Cambridgeshire).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022