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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.