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The HOEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,096 7500 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 1,025 5342 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +3071 -2158 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 662 2438 0.004 40
United Kingdom 1,973 2989 0.004 43
Top States for HOEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 549 3466 0.003 29
Massachusetts 485 1834 0.008 76
California 386 7005 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 290 5166 0.002 24
New Jersey 253 3756 0.003 30
Top States for HOEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 485 1834 0.008 76
New Hampshire 65 2794 0.005 53
Delaware 36 3701 0.005 46
Connecticut 109 4137 0.003 32
New Jersey 253 3756 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of HOEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 279 6.81
Asian/Pacific 135 3.3
White (Hispanic) 72 1.76
Mixed Race 37 0.9
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.22
White (Caucasian) 3,564 87.01

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

Meaning of HOEY in historical publications

HOEY. Originally MacHoey, a corruption of MacKay, but retaining a similar pronunciation.

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 HOEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOEY.

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 HOEY

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