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License. 1st occurrence in my family history: 3rd generation
(grandmother, Constance Howey). Spelling variations of this
family name include: Howie, Howe, Howey, Howy and others. In the
United Kingdom today there are 608 people with the surname
Howey, this makes it the 7711th most common. Therefore, for
every 1million people 13 of them have the surname Howey!
Recorded as Howie and Howey, this famous Scottish name is
locational. It derives from an estate known a “The lands of How”
in the county of Ayrshire, although the precise location is now
lost. The name therefore is a member of the ever growing list of
surnames of the British Isles that originate from lost medieval
sites. It is claimed that the origin is from the Ancient
British-Strathclyde ‘hoh’, a word which pre-dates wri