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rayon Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish (Rayón): augmentative of rayo ‘ray’, ‘beam’, ‘shaft (of light)’; its application as a surname is unclear.
  2. French: topographic name for someone who lived by cultivated land, from a variant of roion ‘furrow’.
  3. 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).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rayon Families in the US in 1920
Number of rayon families
 13-24
 5-12
 1-4
 0
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