Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish (Rayón) : augmentative of rayo ‘ray’, ‘beam’, ‘shaft (of light)’; its application as a surname is unclear.
- French : topographic name for someone who lived by cultivated land, from a variant of roion ‘furrow’.
- French : from a pet form of a personal name, either Rahier (see Rayer 1), or a Frenchified form of Rado (a short form of a compound Germanic personal name).