Rainier is used as a family name or surname in many languages. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Rainier
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Unknown
Meaning: Personal name of Germanic origin, Raginhari (ragin = + hari = army council), now rare and difficult to locate. Varientes: Raigner, Raignier (17, 87).

How popular is Rainier?

Rainier is ranked 182195 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Rainiers plummeted by 0.1569859 per cent to 636 since 2000 and slipped by 1660 spots and ranked at 35395. The last name was found in around 2 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 90.57 93.41
Hispanic or Latino 3.3 1.57
Black 2.67 3.3
Others 1.73 0
Rainier is not so popular last name but still a prevalent family name common in United States. On the other hand, it is more oftenly used in Bermuda. Around 1951 people have been found who wears Rainier as their family name. Rainier is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
240,218 Canada7
32,086 Mexico3
119,730 Brazil3
184,212 France3
723,167 Indonesia2
91,784 Netherlands2
2,374 Bermuda1
151,601 Spain1
11,923 Slovenia1
36,678 Singapore1
21,562 Portugal1
42,479 Greece1
172,258 Germany1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
29,517 New Zealand12
120,934 Australia11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
64,420 England54
Countries with hundreds of Rainier:
35,311 United States812
9,017 South Africa712
34,535 Philippines322

Immigrants to US

From Ireland

John Rainier worked as workman and hailed from Great Britain. During the great famine, 22 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Caledonia and arrived on July 31, 1851.

Comments

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Lolita Bivins
Rainier is an orthographic variant of reinier cal, personal name of Germanic origin raginhari, consists of ragin which means board and hari which means army.

Rainier Namesakes

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  • Chris Rainier, Cinematographer
  • Patricia Rainier, Actress
  • Tony Rainier, Musical Artist
  • Ansel Rainier, Film director
  • Margaret Rainier, Author

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