Popularity of the last name by country
Denmark
All countries
- France (1,104,571)
- Spain (57,740)
- Switzerland (46,679)
- United States (11,225)
- Germany (5,745)
- Algeria (5,725)
- United Kingdom (5,550)
- Italy (5,263)
- Colombia (3,194)
- Belgium (2,552)
- Peru (2,029)
- Netherlands (1,657)
- Portugal (1,427)
- Monaco (1,143)
- Argentina (1,133)
- Romania (844)
- Mauritius (833)
- Canada (746)
- Cuba (696)
- Austria (581)
- New Zealand (488)
- Morocco (477)
- Tunisia (464)
- Poland (451)
- Mexico (448)
- French Polynesia (436)
- Denmark (377)
- Brazil (371)
- Ireland (355)
- Unknown country (354)
- Chile (334)
- Australia (330)
- Hungary (249)
- New Caledonia (239)
- Uruguay (239)
- Sweden (225)
- South Africa (219)
- Puerto Rico (192)
- Guadeloupe (161)
- Viet Nam (155)
Origine of last name
REY : 1: Spanish Galician and French (Occitan): from Spanish and Old French rey ‘king’ (from Latin rex genitive regis) which may have denoted someone in the service of a king or it may have been from the title of someone in a brotherhood or a nickname for someone who behaved in a regal fashion or who had earned the title in some contest of skill or by presiding over festivities. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Del%20Rey">Del Rey</a> and Galician <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Rei">Rei</a>.2: English (Somerset): variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Ray">Ray</a>.3: German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with ragin ‘counsel’.4: German: nickname for a leader of dancing or singing from Middle Low German rei(e) ‘(line) dance (satirical) song’.
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