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rainwater Name Meaning and History

Americanized form of the German family name Reinwasser, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a source of fresh water, from Middle High German reine ‘pure’ + wazzer ‘water’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rainwater Families in the US in 1920
Number of rainwater families
 49-95
 17-48
 1-16
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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