Belay Family History
Belay Name Meaning
Ethiopian: from the personal name Belay meaning ‘on top’ in the Amharic language. — Note: Since Ethiopians do not have hereditary surnames this name was registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Belaj: nickname for a fair-haired or pale-skinned man derived from Slovenian bel Croatian bijel ‘white light fair’. Slovak: variant of Belaj a cognate of 2 above derived from a dialect form of the adjective biely ‘white light fair’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022