Loy Family History
Loy Name Meaning
German (south and Rhineland) and Dutch: from a reduced form of
the medieval personal name Eloy (Latin Eligius, a
derivative of eligere ‘to choose or elect’), popularized a
6th-century saint who came to be venerated as the patron of smiths and
horses.German: habitational name from Loy in Oldenburg.Dutch: variant of Lowy.Italian (Sardinian): from the
personal name Loi, a short form of Balloi, a pet form of
Salvatóre.Spanish and Italian: possibly from a reduced
form of the personal name Eloy (see 1 above), of which the
Italian form is Eligio.French (Picardy): nickname
for someone who was quick to have recourse to the law: a frequent or
vexatious litigant, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a
lawyer.
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Name Distribution of Loy Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Loy families
 60 - 117  21 - 59 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Loy families
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79 - 155 27 - 78 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Loy families
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17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Loy Family Origin
Loy Immigration Information
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Loy Family Occupations
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