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Rainer

name

Meaning

  1. An English and American surname transferred from the given name.
  2. That which rains, or dispenses something in a shower.

Etymology / origin

Variant of Rayner, a patronymic surname from a medieval given name from Proto-Germanic *raginą (“counsel by the gods”) + *harjaz (“army”). Also borrowed from modern German.

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