Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1890. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gurney through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 790
- 790 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 298 as a first name in 2020; 4,319 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gurney’s family of names
In English usage, Gurney as a surname has a related form in GURNEE.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Gurney
Characters named Gurney: Gurney Halleck (Dune).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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