Last name: FOY
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FOY : This last name is indexed 133,464 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FOY : 1: Irish: variant of Fahey.2: Irish: variant of Fee.3: French: from the medieval female personal name Foy which is from Old French foi (from Latin fides) ‘faith’.4: French: habitational name from (La) Foy the name of several places in various parts of France.5: American French: altered form of Faille 1 itself an altered form of French Faye.
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