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Delaney

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

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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