Moy Family History
- Moy Name Meaning
- Irish (County Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muighe ‘descendant of Muighe’, of unexplained etymology. The English surname (see 2) has also become established in Ulster. English (Norfolk): unexplained. Compare Moy 1. French: habitational name from places so called in Aisne and Saône-et-Loire, named in Latin as Modiacum ‘(estate) of Modius’ (see Moya 2). Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway named Moi, from Old Norse mói, the dative case of mór ‘sandy plain’. Chinese: possibly a variant spelling of Mei 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 180,746 Historical Documents with Moy on Ancestry
- 64,237 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 36,631 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,960 Military Records
- 25,006 Immigration Records
- 49,912 Member Trees
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Number of Moy families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Moy families
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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