Rayon Family History
Rayon Name Meaning
Spanish (Rayón): augmentative of rayo ‘ray’,
‘beam’, ‘shaft (of light)’; its application as a surname is unclear.French: topographic name for someone who lived by
cultivated land, from a variant of roion ‘furrow’.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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rayon
Name Distribution of Rayon Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rayon families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rayon families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rayon census records
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Rayon Family Origin
Rayon Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rayon Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rayon census records
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Military Service by Rayon
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