Torney is an English, Northern-Irish and German surname which is most prevalent in Australia and has its highest density in the North of Ireland. 
As a habitational surname it may be connected to French locations with the name Tournay or Tournai (from Proto-Celtic "turno-" "height" with the Gaulish toponymic suffix "-acu(m)", meaning "location of the hills" or "shore heights") – and carried by people arriving after the Norman conquest in 1066 – or to a variety of British places named Thorney (with the Old English meaning of "thorn tree island"). As an Irish name it is the reduced Anglicized form of "Ó Torna" (meaning "descendant of Torna", a personal name). In Slavic influenced eastern Germany it is a toponymic surname – derived similarly as in England from the word thorn – and probably referred to a location characterized by thorn bushes and/or trees.
Notable people with the name Torney include:
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 Surname listThis page lists people with the surname Torney. 