Raney
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Raney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 24th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Variant of Rainey.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 6.3Kas Rainey(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14Kas Rainey
- USUnited States1 in 14Kas Rainey
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Raney itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 455 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)
23,291 named Rainey, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rainey in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more and Lanie in AE United Arab Emirates.
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)
Variant of Rainey.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raney 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 | #885 | 23,291as Rainey | 1 in 14K | 23K | Rainey | 455 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1.7K | Rainey | 175 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Rainey | 8 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Rainey | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 3 | Rainey | 104 |
| LR Liberia | #24 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Rainey | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 943as Reini | 1 in 5.9K | 1.8K | — | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | #646 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Rainey | 42 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Lanie | 13 |
23,291 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George P. Raneyb. 1845USAmerican judge (1845-1911)
- John Henry Raneyb. 1849USAmerican politician (1849-1928)
- Murray Raneyb. 1885USAmerican engineer (1885-1966)
- Della H. Raneyb. 1912USAfrican-American army nurse
- Wayne Raneyb. 1921USAmerican singer (1921-1993)
- Ribs Raneyb. 1923USAmerican baseball player (1923-2003)
- Jimmy Raneyb. 1927USAmerican musician (1927–1995)
- John N. Raneyb. 1947USBusinessman and Texas state legislator
- Doug Raneyb. 1956USAmerican musician (1956-2016)
- Tom Raneyb. 1960USAmerican comic artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.8K | #4,038 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.4K | #3,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,167 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 49 | #51,457 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Raney mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Rainey. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Raney have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Rainey, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Raney?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,291 people named Rainey in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Raney compared with other names?
- In the United States, Raney is the 885th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raneyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Raney” — the 885th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.