English Explanatory Dictionary

Delaney

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old French.
  2. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  3. A male given name.
  4. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Arkansas, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈleɪni/

Word forms

Delaney Dulaney

Etymology

From a Norman baronial surname, from a place in France, Old French del aunaie (“from the alder grove”). In Ireland an anglicization of Irish Ó Dubhshláine (descendant of Black (dubh) + Challenge (slán)).

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