Croney Family History
Croney Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: apparently a shortened Anglicized form of an unrecorded Gaelic name Mac Ruanaidh ‘son of Ruanadh’ a personal name from Gaelic ruanaidh ‘strong man champion’. The initial C comes from the final consonant of mac. Compare Rooney . English: possibly a variant of Crowner ‘coroner’ once a Sussex name with the final syllable pronounced -ey. Alternatively it might be a variant of Corney with the medial -r- metathesized.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022