Tinney

English

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó tSionnaigh (“descendant of Sionnach”), a personal name based on sionnach (“fox”). Compare Shinnick.

Proper noun

Tinney (countable and uncountable, plural Tinneys)

1. A surname from Irish.
2. An unincorporated community in Sandusky County, Ohio, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tinney is the 8488^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3884 individuals. Tinney is most common among White (88.49%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tinney”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• ninety