# Gaffney

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #40,706

## Definitions
1. A surname from Irish.
2. A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States.

## Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gamhna (“descendant of Gamhain”), a byname from gamhain (“calf”).

## Easily confused with
- **gaffe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gaffe-vs-gaffney)
- **gaffer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gaffer-vs-gaffney)

## Common misspellings (9)
`agffney`, `gaffeny`, `gaffneyy`, `gaffnney`, `gaffnye`, `gafney`, `gafnfey`, `gfafney`, `ggaffney`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/gaffney