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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan (Rayó) : variant of Relló, nickname from relló, a derivative of rella ‘ploughshare’.
  • Spanish (from Asturian-Leonese) : Castilianized variant of Rayu, habitational name from El Rayu, a town in Asturies.
  • Spanish : possibly from rayo ‘flash of lightning’, which may be a nickname in the sense ‘lively’.

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