Family name Hoy (Hoy 
, هوي 
, 霍伊 
, and others...) , worldwide, is a common last name. The family name Hoy is characteristic of Belize, where it is quite a common surname, Equatorial Guinea, where it is quite a rare surname, and Malaysia. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Malaysia. Very seldom, Hoy is the forename as well as the last name.
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| Hoy | Malaysia, United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada |
| هوي | Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Morocco, Egypt |
| 霍伊 | China |
| ホイ | Japan |
| Хой | Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Russia |
| הוי | Israel |
| nikolaus van hoy Flemish painter, draughtsman and etcher (1631-1679), BE (b. 1631) |
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| nicolas van hoy (b. 1631) |
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| thomas hoy English physician and poet (b. 1659) |
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| thomas hoy British gardener (b. 1750) |
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| bernhard rupert hoy (b. 1762) |
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| james barlow hoy British politician, IE (b. 1794) |
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william edwin hoy American missionary, US (b. 1858) |
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dummy hoy American baseball player, US (b. 1862) |
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| p. r. hoy US (b. 1816) |
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helen hoy greeley American suffragist, lawyer, activist, US (b. 1878) |
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| charles sew hoy Merchant, Chinese leader, gold-dredger, NZ (b. 1836) |
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| henry hoy British mechanical engineer, GB (b. 1855) |
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robert hoy American actor (1927-2010), US (b. 1927) |
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| william wilson hoy (b. 1868) |
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| frank hoy American politician, US (b. 1878) |
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