Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : variant of Harney. This name has been confused with Hartnane (which is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIfearnáin (see Heffernan), and sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarnáin ‘descendant of Earnán’, a personal name derived from earna ‘experienced’ or perhaps from iarn ‘iron’).