Lay Family History
Lay Name Meaning
English: variant of Lee . Scottish: shortened form of McClay . German: habitational name from any of the places so named in the Rhineland near Koblenz and in Bavaria from lay(h) a word meaning ‘stone rock slate’. French: habitational name from any of several places so named in Loire Meurthe-et-Moselle and Pyrénées-Atlantique. Burmese: from a name element originally forming part of a compound personal name denoting the younger sibling. — Note: Since Burmese do not have hereditary surnames this name was registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 雷 see Lei 7: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 賴 see Lai 8: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 李 and 黎 see Li 1 and
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022