Ray

in Texas

There are 9,784 people with the last name "Ray" in Texas.

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Ranking in Texas

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Ray 178
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  1. is 174th most common Marshall
  2. is 175th most common Shaw
  3. is 176th most common Tucker
  4. is 177th most common Hicks
  5. is 178th most common Ray
  6. is 179th most common Burns
  7. is 180th most common Myers
  8. is 181st most common Juarez
  9. is 182nd most common Hawkins

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ray

James, David, Robert, John, Michael, William, Charles, Richard, Jerry, Mary



Meaning & History

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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