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The NOYES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,407 3471 0.003 35
United States (1880 census) 4,959 1245 0.01 99
Change since 1880 +4448 -2226 -0.007 -64
Other Countries
Australia 261 5916 0.002 16
United Kingdom 697 6941 0.002 15
Top States for NOYES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 891 947 0.014 140
California 722 3930 0.002 21
Maine 708 287 0.056 555
Florida 561 3481 0.004 35
New Hampshire 500 300 0.040 405
Top States for NOYES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 708 287 0.056 555
Vermont 298 221 0.049 489
New Hampshire 500 300 0.040 405
Massachusetts 891 947 0.014 140
Utah 248 1150 0.011 111

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NOYES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NOYES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NOYES in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NOYES by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NOYES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NOYES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NOYES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NOYES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 197 2.09
Mixed Race 140 1.49
Asian/Pacific 66 0.7
Black/African American 51 0.54
Native American/Alaskan 42 0.45
White (Caucasian) 8,911 94.73

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NOYES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of NOYES in historical publications

Noy is an abbreviation for Noah. "In England, in the seventeenth century, Attorney-General Noy was succeeded by Sir John Banks, and Chief-justice Heath being found guilty of bribery, Sir John Finch obtained the office; hence it was said: "Noy's flood is gone, The Banks appear, Heath is shorn down, And Finch sings here."--Lower. In the Cornish British, Noi is a nephew, and Noys night.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


NOYES. The family of Noyes of Wiltshire and Sussex have, time out of mind, borne the same arms as that of Noye of Cornwall, to Avhich the celebrated attorneygeneral of Chai'Ies I. belonged. There is a tradition that three brothers of the name came over from Normandy about the time of the Conquest, and settled in the counties of Wilts, Hants, and Cornwall. The name is supposed to be derived from Noye or Noyon in Normandy, anciently called Noyon-sur-Andelle, but now Charleval, in the canton of Grainville ; but there are several localities in that province called Noyers, which may have an equal claim. The various spellings of the name are Noye, De Noye, De la Noye, Noise, Noys, Noyse. Inf. T. Herbert Noyes, Esq., junr.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to NOYES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOYES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NOYES

The following words are slight variants of NOYES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.