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The hoy Surname

hoy Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly East Anglia): metonymic occupational name for a sailor, from Middle Dutch hoey ‘cargo ship’.
  2. Northern Irish: variant of Howey 2 and Haughey.
  3. Scottish: habitational name from some unidentified minor place named Hoy, or from the Orkney island of Hoy, which was named in Old Norse as Háey, from há ‘high’ + ey ‘island’.
  4. Danish (Høy): nickname for a tall person, from høj ‘high’.

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

Distribution of hoy Families in the US in 1920
Number of hoy families
 136-270
 46-135		 1-45
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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