Popularity of the last name by country

Austria

• Wien (717)
• Niederösterreich (206)
• Vorarlberg (25)
• Salzburg (14)
• Oberösterreich (10)
• Steiermark (4)
• Tirol (3)
• Kärnten (1)

All countries

• France (2,558,900)
• Canada (295,704)
• Belgium (65,798)
• United States (64,059)
• United Kingdom (37,930)
• Netherlands (15,590)
• Switzerland (9,205)
• Spain (5,363)
• Martinique (4,954)
• New Zealand (4,792)
• Germany (4,225)
• Australia (3,696)
• Algeria (3,542)
• Ireland (2,495)
• Unknown country (2,330)
• Austria (1,553)
• Italy (1,113)
• Denmark (869)
• Poland (807)
• Sweden (754)
• Haiti (637)
• Guadeloupe (607)
• New Caledonia (538)
• Viet Nam (385)
• Morocco (343)
• Réunion (262)
• Indonesia (260)
• Luxembourg (202)
• Mauritius (195)
• Peru (191)
• Tunisia (188)
• Norway (170)
• Hungary (145)
• India (143)
• Mexico (129)
• Russian Federation (117)
• Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (115)
• Turkey (112)
• Portugal (101)
• South Africa (89)

Origine of last name

ROY : 1: Scottish: nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion from Gaelic ruadh ‘red’. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Reed">Reed</a>.2: English (of Norman origin): from Old French roi ‘king’ used as a nickname (see 3 below) and also as a personal name. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Ray">Ray</a> 2.3: French and Walloon: from Old French rey roy ‘king’ (from Latin rex) a nickname for someone who lived in a regal fashion or who had earned the title in some contest of skill or by presiding over festivities. This may also be a habitational name from (Le) Roy the name of several places in various parts of France and in Belgium (Wallonia). Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Deroy">Deroy</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Leroy">Leroy</a>.4: Germanized or Americanized form of Polish Sorbian Czech and Slovenian Roj or Polish and Sorbian Rój: probably a nickname for an irascible quick-tempered man or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper from Lower Sorbian Czech and Slovenian roj Polish and Upper Sorbian rój ‘swarm (of bees)’.5: Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Rai">Rai</a>.