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The rein Surname

rein Name Meaning and History

  1. from a short form of any of the various personal names formed with the element ragin ‘counsel’, for example Reinbold, Reinhard (see Reinhardt).
  2. variant of Rain.
  3. perhaps a habitational name for someone who lived by the Rhine.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rein Families in the US in 1920
Number of rein families
 59-115
 20-58
 1-19
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