Binney Family History
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Binney Name Meaning
English (chiefly South Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived on land enclosed by a bend in a river, from Old English binnan ea ‘within the river’, or a habitational name from places in Kent called Binney and Binny, which have this origin. Scottish: habitational name from Binney or Binniehill near Falkirk, named in Gaelic as Beinnach, from beinn ‘hill’ + the locative suffix -ach.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Finney, Bunney, Sidney, Birney, Disney, Linney, Winney, Binner