Dabney
English edit
Etymology edit
Habitational surname of Norman origin, from de (“of”) and the toponym Aubigny or Aubigné, from Medieval Latin Albiniacus, from the Roman gens, Latin Albinius.
Proper noun edit
Dabney (countable and uncountable, plural Dabneys)
- A surname from Norman.
- A placename deriving from the surname:
- An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Vance County, North Carolina, United States.
- A ghost town in Uvalde County, Texas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Dabney is the 4793rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7376 individuals. Dabney is most common among Black/African American (56.03%) and White (38.11%) individuals.
References edit
- Ernest Nègre - Toponymie générale de la France - Volume 1 - Page 538
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dabney”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 401.
Anagrams edit
Categories:
- English terms derived from Norman
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Norman
- en:Unincorporated communities in Arkansas, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Arkansas, USA
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- en:Unincorporated communities in Indiana, USA
- en:Places in Indiana, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Kentucky, USA
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- en:Unincorporated communities in North Carolina, USA
- en:Places in North Carolina, USA
- en:Ghost towns in Texas, USA
- en:Places in Texas, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia, USA
- en:Places in West Virginia, USA