Hoy Family History
Hoy Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Hoy Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hoy families
 136 - 270  46 - 135 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hoy families
|
267 - 532 90 - 266 |
1 - 89 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hoy families
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78 - 154 27 - 77 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hoy Family Origin
Hoy Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hoy
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Hoy Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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