Last name origins & meanings:
- 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
- English: patronymic from Raine
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female
personal name Rayne, cognate with Raine 2 and used as a
translation of Hebrew Malka ‘queen’.
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