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The RAINE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,873 14574 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 440 10696 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1433 -3878 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 377 4222 0.002 23
United Kingdom 3,125 1994 0.007 68
Top States for RAINE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 245 11229 0.001 7
Texas 120 14259 0.001 6
Florida 81 21887 0.001 5
Illinois 73 19406 0.001 6
Kansas 71 5071 0.003 26
Top States for RAINE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 26 3991 0.004 43
Kansas 71 5071 0.003 26
Mississippi 67 4513 0.002 24
Wyoming 9 9232 0.002 18
Nevada 29 8672 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of RAINE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RAINE 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 RAINE 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 RAINE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 357 19.06
Mixed Race 32 1.71
White (Hispanic) 24 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.85
Asian/Pacific 11 0.59
White (Caucasian) 1,433 76.51

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

Meaning of RAINE in historical publications

RAINE. RAYNE. The northern families probably sprang from Rayne, co. Aberdeen ; the southern from Raiue, co. Essex.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to RAINE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAINE.

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 RAINE

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