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The RAINER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,107 9598 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 515 9419 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +2592 -179 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 83 16810 0.001 5
United Kingdom 413 10197 0.001 9
Top States for RAINER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 363 5611 0.002 17
Mississippi 261 1586 0.009 92
Alabama 248 2605 0.006 56
California 194 13062 0.001 6
Florida 178 10443 0.001 11
Top States for RAINER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 261 1586 0.009 92
Alabama 248 2605 0.006 56
Tennessee 142 4769 0.002 25
Alaska 14 7346 0.002 22
Louisiana 94 5574 0.002 21

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RAINER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RAINER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RAINER in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RAINER by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RAINER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RAINER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RAINER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RAINER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 702 22.59
Mixed Race 45 1.45
White (Hispanic) 42 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.71
Asian/Pacific 14 0.45
White (Caucasian) 2,282 73.45

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RAINER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of RAINER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of RAINER.

Similar names to RAINER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAINER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RAINER

The following words are slight variants of RAINER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.