The raine Surname
raine Name Meaning and History
- English and French: from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names formed with ragin ‘counsel’ as the first element (see, for example, Raymond, Reynold).
- English: from the medieval female personal name Rayne (from Old French reine ‘queen’, Latin regina).
- English and French: nickname from Old French raine ‘frog’ (Latin rana).
- Scottish: habitational name from a place called Rayne in Aberdeenshire, so named from an English dialect term meaning ‘strip of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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