Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEochaidh ‘descendant of Eochaidh’, a variant of Eachaidh (see Haughey).
- Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead named Hoøy from Old Norse hór ‘high’ + ey ‘island’.
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