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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 430,140 Historical Documents with Loy on Ancestry
- 103,414 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 51,657 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,700 Military Records
- 8,957 Immigration Records
- 252,412 Member Trees
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Number of Loy families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Loy census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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