Leroi
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Leroi, Le Roi or Roi is a French given name and surname of Norman origin.
A furore Normanorum, libera nos, Domine! THE KING OF AMIGNY... It is therefore to the seventh century that we would have to go back and delve into the furious hordes of those indomitable Norsemen, whose origins we have just outlined, to find there, in France, the mother stock of those LE ROYs we are discussing...
— Du Cluzel de Remaurin, Knight
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Old Norman, Old French |
| Meaning | The King |
| Region of origin | France |
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Leroy |
| Variant forms | Roy, Deroy |
Written interchangeably in records as: Roi, Roy, De Roy, and Le Roy, the surname Le Roi originated from the Normans, the descendants of Norse Vikings who migrated to Amigny, a commune in Manche, Normandy.[1][2][3][4] The derivation is from the Old French roy, roi (French pronunciation: [ʁwa]), meaning "king", or "the king", which was a byname used before the Norman Conquest and a personal name in the Middle Ages.[5]
As a given name
- Leroi Court (born 1963), Australian athlete
- Leroi Jones or Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), African-American writer
- LeRoi Moore (1961–2008), American saxophonist
As a surname
- Ali LeRoi (born 1962), American television producer, director, writer and actor
- Armand Marie Leroi (born 1964), New Zealand author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology
- Gary LeRoi Gray (born 1987), American actor
- André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986), French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist
