Given name & surname
Tunney
“descendant of Tonnach”
Tunney is a surname from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tunney goes back to Irish Ó Tonnaigh, meaning “descendant of Tonnach.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Ó Tonnaigh (“descendant of Tonnach”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tunney through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 40 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 23 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 9 in 1928. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 23 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,315 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.
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