Popularity of the last name by country

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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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