Hoy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(Orkney, Shetland) From Old Norse há (“high”) + ey (“island”).
Proper noun[edit]
Hoy (countable and uncountable, plural Hoys)
- A surname.
- An island in south-west Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid refs HY20, ND29).
- A small uninhabited island in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744).
- An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Hoy is the 3855th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9196 individuals. Hoy is most common among White (85.3%) individuals.
Anagrams[edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- en:Islands
- en:Places in the Orkney Islands, Scotland
- en:Places in Scotland
- en:Places in the Shetland Islands, Scotland
- en:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in West Virginia, USA
- en:Places in the United States