Frequency: (770)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: variant spelling of Hoy 1.
2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Høye, from the dative singular of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
