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coy Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced form of McCoy.
  2. English: nickname for a quiet and unassuming person, from Middle English, Old French coi, quei ‘calm’, ‘quiet’ (Latin quietus).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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coy Family Facts

Distribution of coy Families in the US in 1920
Number of coy families
 126-250
 43-125		 1-42
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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