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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Latin: Ruler
  2. Norwegian: Queen; pure
  3. English: Wise ruler

First name variations: Rein, Reign, Rayne, Rana, Rane, Raina, Ray, Rain, Rain, Ranie, Rane, Rain, Rainey, Raini, Rains, Raney, Rayne

Last name origins & meanings:

  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’.