Lay

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• English : variant of Lee.
• Scottish : reduced variant of McClay.
• French : habitational name from places so named in Loire, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Pyrénées-Atlantique.
• German : habitational name from places so named, in the Rhineland near Koblenz and in Bavaria, named with lay(h), a word meaning ‘stone’, ‘rock’, ‘slate’.