Last Name ABERNETHY

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Meaning	Local: from the town of Abernethy in Perthshire. Aber, the mouth of a stream, and nithy, dangerous. The family are descended from Alexander Abernethy. Local: From a town in Strathern, Scotland, on the river Tay; derived from 'Aber,' as in Abercrombie, and 'nethy,' in the Gaelic, dangerous. 'Nith' or 'Nithy,' is also the name of a river in the south of Scotland, and the name may have been taken from a town at or near its mouth - 'Abernithy.'

Origin	Scottish, Celtic, Gaelic, Irish

Rank	11,141 (2000 US census)	8,681 (1990 US census)

Count	2,612 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

94.07%, or 2457 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
3.22%, or 84 total occurrences, as black,
0.31%, or 8 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.31%, or 8 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.8%, or 21 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.3%, or 34 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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