Rainer

3,175 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rainer in the 2020 census, making it the 9,753rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 94,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,175
Rank: 9,753rd
How common: 1 in 94,100
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rainer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.5%
Black, not Hispanic 24.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Rainer

Luise Rainer (1910–2014)German-born actress
Yvonne Rainer (born 1934)American artist
Adam Rainer (1899–1950)only person to have been a dwarf and a giant
Friedrich Rainer (1903–1947)Nazi party leader
Alois Rainer (born 1965)German politician

People named Rainer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rainer

Also a first name

Rainer has been given to 1,276 American babies as a first name since 1955, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.