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Raine (female)

Variants:Laraine (F) Raina (F) Regina (F)
Masculine form:Rayner (M)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

English, of recent coinage. It may have been variant of Regina, influenced by a respelling of the French reine, "queen".  Alternativvely it could have come from a surname, Raine or Rayne which orginated from Germanic personal names containing the element ragin "advice, decision".  [See the malenames Rayner and Rainer.]