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The FOY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,630 2432 0.005 50
United States (1880 census) 3,612 1700 0.007 72
Change since 1880 +10018 -732 -0.002 -22
Other Countries
Australia 522 3080 0.003 32
United Kingdom 3,730 1673 0.008 81
Top States for FOY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,101 1334 0.014 137
New York 933 2404 0.005 49
Pennsylvania 814 2219 0.007 66
California 767 4518 0.002 23
Texas 759 3558 0.004 36
Top States for FOY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,101 1334 0.014 137
Louisiana 538 1406 0.012 120
Vermont 59 2090 0.010 97
Alabama 384 2107 0.009 86
Wyoming 41 1789 0.008 83

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

Classification and Origin of FOY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FOY 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 FOY 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 FOY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 219 1.61
Mixed Race 185 1.36
Asian/Pacific 99 0.73
Native American/Alaskan 50 0.37
White (Caucasian) 10,252 75.22
Black/African American 2,821 20.7

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

Meaning of FOY in historical publications

FOY. A parish in co. Hereford.

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 FOY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOY.

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 FOY

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