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First name origin & meaning:

English: Dweller on the island

First name variations: Adny

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: habitational name from Adeney in Shropshire, named in Old English as Ēadwynna ey ‘island of a woman called Ēadwynn’.
  2. English: from a Middle English pet form of Adam. Forms such as Adenet, Adinot, Addy, and Adey are all well attested.
  3. English: Possibly an Americanized spelling of Norwegian Aadnøy, a habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse {o,}rn ‘eagle’ + øy ‘island’.