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Lay

Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

Old English : One from the meadow farm

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

English : variant of Lee.
Scottish : reduced variant of McClay.
French : habitational name from places so named in Loire, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Pyrénées-Atlantique.
German : habitational name from places so named, in the Rhineland near Koblenz and in Bavaria, named with lay(h), a word meaning ‘stone’, ‘rock’, ‘slate’.