Raine Surname Guide

Arms linked to Raines and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Raine

In parish registers, Raine often stands in for Raines. In origin, the name means “From Rayne or Rennes”.

Raine drops the “s” of Raines, a shortening that clerks often made. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Rayne and Rains. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Raine with 2,109 bearers, at rank 14,223. French civil records give 508 births under the name Raine from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1961–1970.

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