Leys Family History
Leys Name Meaning
French: habitational name from Leys in Saône-et-Loire.Dutch: patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name
Laurei(n)s (see Lawrence).Scottish:
habitational name from a place in Aberdeenshire called Leys, named
with Old English l?se ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’ (see
Lees). WN, pwh.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Leys Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leys families
 27 - 51  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leys families
|
53 - 104 18 - 52 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Leys Family Origin
Leys Emigration Information (US)
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Leys Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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