Popularity of the last name by country
Ukraine
- Odeska (35)
- Respublika Krym (9)
- Kyyivska (1)
All countries
- France (1,102,242)
- Spain (57,376)
- Switzerland (46,971)
- United States (11,223)
- Germany (5,755)
- Algeria (5,716)
- United Kingdom (5,545)
- Italy (5,241)
- Colombia (3,290)
- Belgium (2,644)
- Peru (2,345)
- Netherlands (1,659)
- Portugal (1,371)
- Argentina (1,280)
- Monaco (1,140)
- Romania (844)
- Mauritius (835)
- Canada (757)
- Cuba (695)
- Austria (582)
- Morocco (491)
- New Zealand (488)
- Tunisia (466)
- Poland (453)
- French Polynesia (451)
- Mexico (450)
- Denmark (379)
- Ireland (354)
- Unknown country (354)
- Brazil (340)
- Chile (333)
- Australia (330)
- Hungary (248)
- Uruguay (247)
- New Caledonia (242)
- Sweden (235)
- South Africa (220)
- 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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