The raines Surname
raines Name Meaning and History
- 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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