Feeny Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Feeny and Feeney are two spellings with one history. The name is usually explained as “Descendant of Fiannaidhe”.

Heraldry and the Feeny name

There is no single Feeny family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

A variant of Feeney

Without the “e” of Feeney, Feeny is a simpler written form of the same name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Feeny with 528 bearers, at rank 41,234. Get the complete Feeny report, with a museum-style coat of arms.