Yeray

Pronunciation: jyeh-RIE(Canarian Spanish)

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Meaning: This name has been used in the Canary Islands since the 1970s. It was apparently lifted from a Canarian place name, which is derived from a Guanche word meaning "big, grand". Perhaps coincidentally, the name of the Guanche god Xerax has also been incorrectly recorded as Yeray.

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- Source: Diccionario de Nombres Propios by Roberto Faure, 2008
- https://www.babynames.ch/Info/Name/naYeray (in English)
- As of 01/01/2018, there are 11,722 males registered under the name Yeray, and 2,655 under the name Yerai, in Spain, per data from Spain's National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística), which is available via http://www.ine.es/tnombres/formGeneralresult.do?L=1&vista=3&orig=ine&cmb4=99&cmb10=0000&cmb6=Yeray&cmb7=1&x=0&y=0
- https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?firstName=Yeray&keywords=Yeray&origin=FACETED_SEARCH
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeray_%C3%81lvarez (in English; Spanish footballer, born in 1995 in the Basque Country, Spain)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeray_Gonz%C3%A1lez (in English; Spanish footballer, born in 1988 in the Canary Islands, Spain)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeray_Luxem (in English; Belgian triathlete, born in 1986 in Belgium)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeray_Pati%C3%B1o (in English; Spanish footballer, born in 1991 in the Valencian Community, Spain)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeray_Sabariego (in English; Spanish footballer, born in 1993 in Catalonia, Spain)
- Reyes, Ignacio (2017). "Xerax". 'Diccionario Ínsuloamaziq: Diccionario histórico-etimológico del amaziq insular' (blog), https://imeslan.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/xerax/ (in Spanish)

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(Information from name #189084 originally submitted by user Callirrhoe)