birney means A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, birney ranks #7,140 of 20,708 for Qualifying.
Etymology
Scottish habitational surname from a place in Morayshire, probably from Scottish Gaelic braonach (“misty, wet, damp”).
name
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A census-designated place in Rosebud County, Montana, United States.
noun
- A design of smaller streetcar with a single four-wheel truck produced in North America between 1915 and 1930, and apparently named after Charles Birney.