Tay Family History
Tay Name Meaning
English (Warwickshire Worcestershire and Staffordshire): variant of Tee Jewish (from Poland): metonymic occupational name for a tea merchant from central Yiddish tay ‘tea’. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 鄭 probably representing its Teochew Hokkien and Taiwanese pronunciation. See Zheng Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 謝 see Xie Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 戴 see Dai Vietnamese (Tẩy): from the Chinese surname 冼 see Xian
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022