Raines Family History
Raines Name Meaning
English: habitational name for someone from Rayne in Essex,
recorded in Domesday Book as Raines, possibly from an
unattested Old English word, hrægene ‘shelter’, ‘eminence’.English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Rennes in
Brittany.English: patronymic from Raine
1.Jewish (Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female
personal name Rayne, cognate with Raine 2 and used as a
translation of Hebrew Malka ‘queen’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Raines Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Raines families
 69 - 135  24 - 68 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Raines families
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54 - 105 19 - 53 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Raines families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Raines Family Origin
Raines Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Raines
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Raines Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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