Gurney

Where Gurney comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Gurney.

  • Vowel-ended
Gurney through the years
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #994 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1894
    Peak, #857
    7 babies named Gurney, its best rank.
  3. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1937
    Gurney Norman born
    American writer and professor from Virginia
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Gurney Norman · American writer and professor from Virginia, 1937–2025

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.