Rayon Family History
- Rayon Name Meaning
- 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).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 34,247 Historical Documents with Rayon on Ancestry
- 25,262 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,920 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,703 Military Records
- 394 Immigration Records
- 2,968 Member Trees
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Number of Rayon families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rayon families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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