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Laroy
How to Pronounce Laroy
Pronounced luh-ROY /ləˈrɔɪ/High
Meaning: Laroy is a variant spelling of Leroy, which comes straight from the French phrase le roi, 'the king'. Leroy began as a surname and nickname and became a widely used American first name; Laroy simply respells the opening syllable. The meaning 'the king' passes unchanged from parent to variant.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Laroy is one of several respellings of Leroy, a name that carried the French 'the king' into English first through surnames and then, in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, as a popular given name. The la- opening reflects how the name was often heard and said, and it kept quiet company with Leroy, Elroy and Delroy.
In United States records Laroy was always the minor spelling, drawing only a couple dozen boys a year even at its high, which came surprisingly late around 1989, while Leroy itself had peaked much earlier. A boy named Laroy across those decades belongs to a great-grandfather's or grandfather's generation now, his name a variant echo of a French royal phrase.
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What does the name Laroy mean?
It is a variant of Leroy, from the French le roi meaning 'the king'.
How do you pronounce Laroy?
It's said luh-ROY /ləˈrɔɪ/, two syllables, stress on the second.
Is Laroy a boy or girl name?
Laroy is used as a boy's name.
Is Laroy a popular name?
No, it was always rare, a variant of Leroy that saw only faint use, peaking as late as the nineteen-eighties.