Rêin
surname · Latin script
Rêin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English rein, reyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”).
- NONorway1 in 7.3K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 18K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,199 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rein in US United States, MM Myanmar (Burma).
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishrein(measured from records)
- Anglo-Normanreyne(measured from records)
- Early Medieval Latinretina(measured from records)
- Classical Latinretineō“hold back”(measured from records)
From Middle English rein, reyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne. Displaced native Old English ġewealdleþer (literally “control leather”).
Sources 3
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rêin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,199 | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | Rein | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 746 | 1 in 7.3K | 746 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 317 | 1 in 18K | 596 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 313 | 1 in 145K | 313 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 190 | 1 in 1.1M | 190 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 108 | 1 in 78K | 108 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 61 | 1 in 96K | 61 | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #138 | — | — | — | Rein | 25 |
4,199 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rêin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English rein, reyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Rêin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Rêin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rein.
- Where is Rêin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rêin is densest in Norway — about 1 in 7.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rêin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,199 people named Rêin in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is Rêin compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Rêin is the 138th most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rêin” — the 138th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.