The hoy Surname
hoy Name Meaning and History
- English (mainly East Anglia): metonymic occupational name for a sailor, from Middle Dutch hoey ‘cargo ship’.
- Northern Irish: variant of Howey 2 and Haughey.
- 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’.
- 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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