About the Roy King surname
The surname Roy King is associated with a patronymic formation. Roy King is a compound surname. Its form combines several family-name elements; depending on the line, this may reflect a dit name, the joining of two surnames, or a more recent civil-status development. The name therefore belongs to a tradition in which an ancestor's given name gradually became a hereditary surname. Different families could independently adopt a surname formed from the same given name.
Pronunciation:
Roj-king/ʁɔjkɪŋ/