Romney

From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), a compound of an unknown first element rumen and Old English ēa (“river”).

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

Romney

1. A surname​.
2. A city in West Virginia, USA, named after Romney in Kent; it is the county seat of Hampshire County.
3. An English earldom.

Romney (plural Romneys)

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

• Hanks, Patrick (2003), “Romney”, in Patrick Hanks, editor, Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press