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    The surname Hanney

    An English place surname, carried by 895 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H500

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hanney is more common than 83.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a place in Oxfordshire, from Old English hana (“rooster”) + īeġ (“island”).

    Hanney is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 895 people named Hanney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 344,967 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 728.

    #27,059
    rank among US surnames
    895
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +22.9%
    change since 2000 (was #30,324)

    Who is named Hanney

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    87% of people named Hanney identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.0%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Hanney

    Hanney has the Soundex code H500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H500.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hanney come from?
    Habitational surname from a place in Oxfordshire, from Old English hana (“rooster”) + īeġ (“island”).
    How common is the surname Hanney?
    895 people in the United States had the surname Hanney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 344,967 Americans. It ranked 27,059th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hanney?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Hanney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Hanney?
    Hanney is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hanney getting more or less common?
    More common. 728 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 895 in 2010, up 23%.
    What are other spellings of Hanney?
    Haney and Hannay.