Meaning and formation
Reyes means “kings” in Spanish. The surname comes from reyes, the plural of rey, “king”. A related religious surname, de los Reyes, includes words meaning “of the kings” and is associated with the Magi, also called the Three Kings. Reyes itself was borrowed from Spanish into Philippine languages, including Tagalog and Cebuano. The billiards player Efren Reyes has the surname Reyes. The historian Isabelo de los Reyes has the separate surname de los Reyes, including the particles de los.
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /ˈɾejes/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Cebuano: /ˈɾejes/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Spanish: /ˈreʝes/ · /ˈreʃes/ · /ˈreʒes/ · Wiktionary ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Reyes has 74 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts
Related given-name entries
The given-name catalogue has separate entries with the same spelling. Each page explains its own given-name use and sources.