Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish: habitational name from Abernethy in southeastern
Perthshire. The place name is of Pictish origin, meaning ‘mouth of the
river Nethy’.
- This was one of the surnames of the Scots who settled in northern
Ireland during the ‘plantation’ in the 17th century, and it was
brought to the U.S. as the name of a Southern plantation owner (in a
different sense of the word ‘plantation’).
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