Given name & surname
Volney
“the spirit of the people”
Volney is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “the spirit of the people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “the spirit of the people.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Volney through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 629
- 629 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 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 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 241 as a first name in 2020; 159 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.
Volney’s family of names
Volney has a related form in VolIny. Volney has a related form in Vollnea. Volney has a related form in Vollnee.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Vollneavariant
- Vollneevariant
- Vollnievariant
- Vollnivariant
- VolInyvariant
- Vollneyvariant
- Volneavariant
- Volnievariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Volney
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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