Family name origins & meanings
- English : possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
- French : habitational name from a place so named in Vosges or from Darney-aux-Chênes in the canton of Châtenois. In some cases it may be an altered spelling of the French surname Darné, a habitational name, with the preposition d(e), for someone from Arné in Hautes Pyrénées.