Romney

• Rumney

From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), from a compound of Latin rumen (“gullet”) and Old English ēa (“river”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒmni/, /ˈɹʌmnɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːmni/

Romney

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Randolph Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
   2. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
   3. An unincorporated community in Eastland County, Texas.
   4. A city, the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, named after Romney in Kent.
3. An English earldom.

Romney (plural Romneys)

1. One of a particular English breed of small sheep with long wool and horns.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Romney”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.