# Heaney

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #48,795

## Definitions
1. A surname from Irish.

## Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hÉighnigh (“descendant of Éighneach”), or an Anglicized form of Ó hÉanna (“descendant of Éanna”), a personal name of unclear origin, possibly containing the element éan (“bird”). Compare Bird, Heagney.

## Easily confused with
- **heavy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-heavy)
- **henry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-henry)
- **honey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-honey)
- **heave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-heave)
- **Heine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-heine)
- **Henny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-henny)
- **heaven** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-heaven)
- **heated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-heated)
- **heater** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-heater)
- **hearty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-hearty)
- **henley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-henley)
- **heaped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-heaped)
- **Hervey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaney-vs-hervey)
- **handy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/handy-vs-heaney)
- **Haley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haley-vs-heaney)
- **Healy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/healy-vs-heaney)
- **heady** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heady-vs-heaney)
- **headed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/headed-vs-heaney)
- **header** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heaney)
- **healed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/healed-vs-heaney)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ehaney`, `haeney`, `heaeny`, `heaneyy`, `heanney`, `heanye`, `henaey`, `hheaney`

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