Rayas Family History
- Rayas Name Meaning
- Spanish: apparently from the plural of raya, which has numerous meanings, including ‘boundary’, ‘strip’, ‘(hair) parting’, ‘ray’ (the fish) (compare Raya).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 26,964 Historical Documents with Rayas on Ancestry
- 23,712 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,376 Census and Voter Lists
- 76 Military Records
- 426 Immigration Records
- 374 Member Trees
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Number of Rayas families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rayas census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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