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foy Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: variant of Fahey.
  2. Irish: variant of Fee.
  3. French: nickname, from Old French foi ‘faith’ (Latin fides), either for a pious person or for someone who frequently used this term in oaths.
  4. French: from the medieval female personal name Foy, which is from foi ‘faith’, as above.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of foy Families in the US in 1920
Number of foy families
 144-285
 49-143		 1-48
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Sophia Foy and Patrick Mc Fadyen gordoncampbell65 3
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Andrew Foy Montgomery County, PA, Circa 1770 Karen Foy 6
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