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    The surname Goy

    A Galician occupational surname, carried by 537 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G000

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goy is more common than 74.9% of them.

    Origin

    Galician origin

    Various origins: * English habitational surname of Norman origin, from any of various places in France called Gouy. * Borrowed from Galician Goy, a habitational surname from a small village in the province of Lugo. * Borrowed from French Goy, a metonymic occupational surname for a farmer, from Old French goi (“bill hook, kind of knife”). * Borrowed from Hokkien 倪 (gê); compare Ni, which derives from the standard Chinese pronunciation of these characters.

    Goy is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 34 Galician surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 537 people named Goy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 574,945 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 485.

    #40,672
    rank among US surnames
    537
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.7%
    change since 2000 (was #42,134)

    Who is named Goy

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    77% of people named Goy identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 5.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 8.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 5.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goy

    Goy has the Soundex code G000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G000.

    Other Galician surnames

    All 34 Galician surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Goy come from?
    Various origins: * English habitational surname of Norman origin, from any of various places in France called Gouy. * Borrowed from Galician Goy, a habitational surname from a small village in the province of Lugo. * Borrowed from French Goy, a metonymic occupational surname for a farmer, from Old…
    How common is the surname Goy?
    537 people in the United States had the surname Goy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 574,945 Americans. It ranked 40,672nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goy?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Goy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Goy?
    Goy is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Goy getting more or less common?
    More common. 485 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 537 in 2010, up 11%.