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The RAINES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,373 1614 0.008 76
United States (1880 census) 2,226 2716 0.004 45
Change since 1880 +18147 +1102 +0.004 +31
Other Countries
Australia 509 3158 0.003 31
United Kingdom 944 5512 0.002 21
Top States for RAINES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,756 494 0.031 309
Georgia 1,520 714 0.019 186
Texas 1,402 1770 0.007 67
Florida 1,261 1660 0.008 79
South Carolina 1,153 569 0.029 287
Top States for RAINES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 772 331 0.043 427
Tennessee 1,756 494 0.031 309
South Carolina 1,153 569 0.029 287
Georgia 1,520 714 0.019 186
Mississippi 518 880 0.018 182

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

Classification and Origin of RAINES

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 RAINES 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 RAINES 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 RAINES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 299 1.47
White (Hispanic) 283 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 153 0.75
Asian/Pacific 81 0.4
White (Caucasian) 16,610 81.53
Black/African American 2,946 14.46

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

Meaning of RAINES in historical publications

RAINES. I. An old spelling of the town of Rennes, in Brittany. 2. But the Raineses of Essex, Yorkshire, and Sussex, descend from Roger, a companion in arms of William the Conqueror, who rewarded him with lands at Rayne in Essex and elsewhere. Hence he and his posterity acquired the name of De Raines, or Raneis. Morant's 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 RAINES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAINES.

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 RAINES

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