Leys

Family name origins & meanings

• French : habitational name from Leys in Saône-et-Loire.
• Dutch : patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Laurei(n)s (see Lawrence).
• Scottish : habitational name from a place in Aberdeenshire called Leys, named with Old English lǣse ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’ (see Lees).