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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • French : Oak tree

Boy name variations

Chainey

Chainey

0 % this year
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Chaney

Chaney

- 17% this year
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Chalney

Chalney

0 % this year
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Chany

Chany

- 17% this year
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How Popular Is The Name Cheney

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Chesney.
  • French : habitational name from a place in Yonne, which takes its name from a Romano-Gallic estate, Caniacum ‘estate of a man named Canius’, from the Roman personal name + the locative suffix -acum.

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