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RAYNE Family History

This most interesting surname has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may derive from a shortened form of any of the various Germanic male given names with the first element "ragin", counsel; for example, Raymond, a compound of "ragin", and "mund", protection; also Reynold, meaning "counsel-rule" from "ragin" and "wald", rule. The medieval female personal name Reine, from the Old French "reine" (Latin "regina"), meaning "queen", may also have given rise to the surname. Finally, Raine may be of Scottish locational origin from a place thus called in the former county of Aberdeenshire, named with the Old Gaelic "rath chain", ford of the tax or tribute...