Given name & surname · also Welsh
Clowney
“water, river”
Clowney is a surname from Old Welsh (ultimately Old English).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Clowney goes back to Old Welsh *Colün, meaning “water, river.”
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Where it comes from
Clowney comes from Old Welsh, and ultimately from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Welsh *Colün (“water, river”), from Old English īeġ (“island”).
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