Torney


Torney is an English, Northern-Irish and German surname which is most prevalent in Australia 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 – and carried by people arriving after the Norman conquest in 1066 – or to a variety of British places named Thorney. As an Irish name it is the reduced Anglicized form of Ó Torna. 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: