Ray

in West Virginia

There are 1,156 people with the last name "Ray" in West Virginia.

Ranking in West Virginia

Name	Rank
Ray	180

is 176th most common Daniels
is 177th most common Curry
is 178th most common Pennington
is 179th most common May
is 180th most common Ray
is 181st most common Hensley
is 182nd most common Porter
is 183rd most common Dotson
is 184th most common Lowe

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.