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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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