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Surname Etymology and Meaning of RAINE

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. English and French: from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names formed with ragin ‘counsel’ as the first element (see, for example, Raymond, Reynold).
2. English: from the medieval female personal name Rayne (from Old French reine ‘queen’, Latin regina).
3. English and French: nickname from Old French raine ‘frog’ (Latin rana).
4. Scottish: habitational name from a place called Rayne in Aberdeenshire, so named from an English dialect term meaning ‘strip of land’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)