torney

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Torney is an English,{{cite web |url=http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=torney |title=Torney Family History |website=ancestry.com |access-date=6 September 2016 |quote=English and Irish: habitational name from places called Tournay in Calvados and Orne in northern France.}}{{cite web |url=https://www.houseofnames.com/torney-family-crest |title=Torney Family Crest, Coat of Arms, Name History and Name Meaning |website=houseofnames.com |date=January 2000 |publisher=Swyrich Corporation |access-date=6 September 2016 |quote=The name Torney arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.}} Northern-Irish and German{{cite web |url=http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/torney.html |title=Absolute Verteilung des Namens "Torney" |website=verwandt.de |access-date=6 September 2016 |quote=In Deutschland gibt es 74 Telefonbucheinträge zum Namen Torney und damit ca. 197 Personen mit diesem Namen.}} surname which is most prevalent in Australia{{cite web |url=http://forebears.io/surnames/torney |title=Torney Family History |website=forebears.io |access-date=6 September 2016}} 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"){{cite web |url=http://www.spns.org.uk/ProtoCelt.pdf |title=Proto-Celtic ― English (Page 87 of 103) |website=spns.org.uk |access-date=6 September 2016 |quote=*turno- height (Page 87 of 103)}} – 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:

• George H. Torney (1850–1913), physician in the United States Navy and Army
• Henry Torney (1884–1942), American football player and industrial engineer
• Hugh Torney (Irish republican) (1954–1996), Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) paramilitary leader
• Hugh Torney (footballer) (1909–2000), Australian rules footballer
• Jason Torney (born 1977), retired Australian rules footballer
• Kate Torney (born 19??), Australian journalist
• Rhona Torney (born 19??), Irish camogie player
• Thomas Torney (1915–1998), British Labour Party politician
• Viktor von Strauß und Torney (1809–1899), German princely minister and poet