What's in a name: Foy

Up until a few weeks ago when I started this blog, I thought I only had two Uncle Foys. Well, it turns out that I have three!

Here they are:

Uncle Foy, my mother's brother.
Great-Uncle Foy (b. mid 1920's), my maternal grandmother's brother.
Great-Great-Uncle Foy (b. 1903), my maternal great-grandmother's brother (brother to Grace Viola Campbell).

I didn't find any other Foys, but I only looked at Great-Great-Uncle Foy's aunts and uncles.

Searching for "Foy definition" on Google gave me some neat results.

From the Merriam-Webster website:
foy chiefly Scottish: a farewell feast or gift

From dictionary.com:
foy
1. chiefly Scot. a farewell gift, feast, or drink.
2. faith

The Scottish origin makes sense, since I'm pretty sure that both the Campbells and the Dunns (the parents of the first Foy) originated from Scotland. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, I like to check name popularity on a parenting website called babycenter.com. It shows popularity of a name through time, and it's really fun to play with. Here's the graph for Foy:

Before finding this graph, I thought we were the only family that used the name Foy. It's fun to see that there were other people that used the name! I think it's funny that the graph ends in 1938. I guess the name didn't catch on, which I think is too bad. I've always thought the name Foy was really cool.