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Here is the link to today's column:
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/local/cleveland-evans-the-name-leroy-fictional-or-famous-goes-back-in-time/article_6a9f5c7c-81b4-11ef-9f6a-87847613fe60.html
I was surprised that Leroy was fairly common in the USA in the early 18th century. It seems to have been one of the first non-British surnames to become established as a given name in the United States. (The surname dictionaries I consulted give "Roy" as an English surname coming from the French word for "king" that goes back to Norman times, but they don't include Leroy as an English name so it only seems to have been brought to the UK and North America by much later immigrants.)
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/local/cleveland-evans-the-name-leroy-fictional-or-famous-goes-back-in-time/article_6a9f5c7c-81b4-11ef-9f6a-87847613fe60.html
I was surprised that Leroy was fairly common in the USA in the early 18th century. It seems to have been one of the first non-British surnames to become established as a given name in the United States. (The surname dictionaries I consulted give "Roy" as an English surname coming from the French word for "king" that goes back to Norman times, but they don't include Leroy as an English name so it only seems to have been brought to the UK and North America by much later immigrants.)
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