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First name origin & meaning:

French: Kingly

First name variations: Rayce, Raydell, Rayder, Raydon, Raylen, Raynell, Ray

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English (also Wrayford): topographic name for someone who lived by a ford on the Wray river.
  2. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Reifarth, Raifarth, or Reifert, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rīc ‘power(ful)’ + frid- ‘peace’.