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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Moy Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Moy families
 121 - 239  41 - 120 |
 1 - 40  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Moy families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Moy Family Origin
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Moy Family Occupations
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