Réy
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Réy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Multiple origins; in most cases borrowed from Spanish Rey. Doublet of Roy.
- ESSpain1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 2.9K
- COColombia≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 368 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
38,603 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rey in ES Spain, AR Argentina, CO Colombia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Multiple origins; in most cases borrowed from Spanish Rey. Doublet of Roy.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Réy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
38,603 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Réy mean, and where does it come from?
- Multiple origins; in most cases borrowed from Spanish Rey. Doublet of Roy. Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history] and 1 other source.
- In which country does Réy have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 39 thousand people named Réy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rey.
- Where is Réy most common?
- Réy is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Réy?
- In Spain, the national register counted 38,603 people named Réy, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A9yThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Réy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.