Rayes Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 9
Surrey 0
Sussex 4
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Rayes Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Rayes family

Profession Census Frequency
Labourer 1
Fs 1
Waterman 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Glover 1
Baker 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Rayes

Name Census Frequency
John Rayes 19
William Rayes 18
Mary Rayes 15
Elizabeth Rayes 13
George Rayes 8
James Rayes 8
Annie Rayes 6
Frederick Rayes 6
Sarah Rayes 6
Charles Rayes 5
Emily Rayes 5
Henry Rayes 5
Thomas Rayes 5
Edward Rayes 4
Eliza Rayes 4
Harriett Rayes 4
Herbert Rayes 4
Joseph Rayes 4
Alfred Rayes 3
Amy Rayes 3
Beatrice Rayes 3
Caroline Rayes 3
Ellen Rayes 3
Emma Rayes 3
Fanny Rayes 3

Rayes Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Rees 60% 200,374
2 Reys 60% 481
3 Royse 40% 440
4 Roys 60% 401
5 Royes 80% 358
6 Rays 80% 339
7 Rayes 100% 256
8 Rase 60% 254
9 Reyes 80% 227
10 Raise 40% 103
11 Res 60% 101

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The surname Rayes is the 7th most popular variant of Rees.

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