Given name & surname
Maloney
“descendant of the devotee of Sunday”
Maloney is a surname from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Maloney goes back to Irish Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh, meaning “descendant of the devotee of Sunday.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh (“descendant of the devotee of Sunday”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Maloney’s family of names
Maloney has a related form in Malone. In English usage, Maloney as a surname has a related form in MALLONEE. In English usage, Maloney as a surname has a related form in MOLONEY.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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