as a Last Name
- 3,086
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Olney
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from places called Olney in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. The former is named in Old English as Ollanēg ‘island of a man called Olla’; the latter is from Old English āna ‘one’, ‘single’, ‘solitary’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, with later metathesis of -nl- to -ln-.
| 9,049th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,086
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Olney per capita
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