Bloy
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɫɔɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bloy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk; also Lincs. apparently derived from Bloyce by backformation as early as the Middle English period, removing the final -s as if it were an inflectional suffix.
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 253K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 261K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bloy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 253K (inferred from the name graph)
1,610 named בלוי, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk; also Lincs. apparently derived from Bloyce by backformation as early as the Middle English period, removing the final -s as if it were an inflectional suffix. Compare Christian Bloys, 1550 in IGI (Tittleshall, Norfolk), with the 1584 record, and Willm Bloyes, 1625 in IGI (Saint Gluvias, Cornwall), with the 1614 record.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bloy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 1,610as בלוי | 1 in 5.4K | 1.6K | — | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Bloy | 45 |
| FR France | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 267K | 22 | Bloy | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Bloy | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 371K | — | Bloy | 70 |
| US United States | 108 | 1 in 3.1M | 115 | Bloy | 94 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Bloy | 11 |
1,610 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Léon Bloyb. 1846FRFrench writer, poet and essayist (1846–1917)
- Nigel Bloyb. 1923GBcricketer (1923-1989)
- Harry Bloyb. 1946CACanadian politician
- Jean-Christophe Bloyb. 1969FRFrench cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 115 | #145,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 30 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bloy mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk; also Lincs. apparently derived from Bloyce by backformation as early as the Middle English period, removing the final -s as if it were an inflectional suffix. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Bloy?
- A machine transcription gives /bɫɔɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bloy have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named בלוי, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bloy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 108 people named Bloy in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bloyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bloy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.