Rayo Family History
- Rayo Name Meaning
- 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’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 22,130 Historical Documents with Rayo on Ancestry
- 19,237 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,825 Census and Voter Lists
- 190 Military Records
- 441 Immigration Records
- 437 Member Trees
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Number of Rayo families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Rayo census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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