Reiners Last Name Facts and Heraldry

Reiners and Reiner are two spellings with one history. Taken at its root, Reiners points to “A descendant of Raginhari, counsel and army”.

Spelling and variants

The extra ending in Reiners is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Reiner's family. The same family of names includes Reinders, Reyners and Reinier.

Surname statistics

Reiners ranked 26,471 in the 2010 US Census, with 922 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Reiners, so the heraldry linked to Reiner is a starting point, not an automatic right.

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