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Ray

in South Dakota

There are 93 people with the last name "Ray" in South Dakota.

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Ranking in South Dakota

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Ray 831
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  1. is 827th most common Metzger
  2. is 828th most common Noble
  3. is 829th most common Plooster
  4. is 830th most common Pond
  5. is 831st most common Ray
  6. is 832nd most common Rossow
  7. is 833rd most common Smidt
  8. is 834th most common Twedt
  9. is 835th most common Weidenbach

Similar Names and Nicknames

Roy, Rao, Rau, Rey, Rae, Rai, Ra, Ruy, Raw, Rhy

Most Common First Names for Ray

Janet, Terry, Chad, Daniel, David, James, John, Kathy, Paul, Richard

Meaning & History

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Ray

English (of Norman origin): nickname denoting someone who behaved in a regal fashion or who had earned the title in some contest of skill or by presiding over festivities, from Old French rey, roy ‘king’. Occasionally this was used as a personal name.

English: nickname for a timid person, from Middle English ray ‘female roe deer’ or northern Middle English ray ‘roebuck’.

English: variant of Rye (1 and 2).

English: habitational name, a variant spelling of Wray.

Scottish: reduced and altered form of McRae.

French: from a noun derivative of Old French raier ‘to gush, stream, or pour’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or rushing stream, or a habitational name from a place called Ray.

Indian: variant of Rai.

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