Rains
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rains is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England:. see Raines .
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
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
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
11,737 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England:. see Raines . Rainy Raithatha • GB frequency 1881: 92 • Main GB location 1881: Midlothian, Lanarks, E Lothian, and Ayrs; also Banffs Scottish: see Rainey . • Current frequencies: GB 342, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 0 Indian (Gujarat): Hindu (Lohana), unexplained.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rains 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 | 11,737 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Rains | 31 |
| BR Brazil | 24 | 1 in 8.8M | 24 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
11,737 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rains is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, genitive singular of Rain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Raibs, ar svītrām
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Piedzēries
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fred Rainsb. 1860GBBritish actor (1860–1945)
- Leon Rainsb. 1870USAmerican operatic bass and actor
- Claude Rainsb. 1889GBBritish actor (1889–1967)
- Albert Rainsb. 1902USAmerican politician (1902-1991)
- Darby Lloyd Rainsb. 1947USAmerican pornographic actress
- Traver Rainsb. 1977USAmerican television personality, fashion designer and photographer
- Ethan Rainsb. 1981IRAmerican actor
- Dominic Rainsb. 1982IRIranian-American actor
- Ashleigh Rainsb. 1989CACanadian actress
- Luce RainsUSAmerican actor
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #3,055 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,113 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #160,235 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #22,443 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rains mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England:. see Raines . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Rains have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Rains, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rains.
- Where is Rains most common?
- Rains is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 28 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rains?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,737 people named Rains in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rainsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Rains”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.