Rainey

Rainey is the 1,561st most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,458 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,300.

By the numbers

People: 22,458
Rank: 1,561st
How common: 1 in 13,300
Per 100,000: 7.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Raighne (“descendant of Raighne”), a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Rognvaldr.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.5%
Black, not Hispanic 30.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rainey

Ma Rainey (1886–1939)American blues singer
Wayne Rainey (born 1960)American motorcycle racer
Ford Rainey (1908–2005)American actor
Joseph Rainey (1832–1887)politician

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

Surnames like Rainey

Also a first name

Rainey has been given to 2,632 American babies as a first name since 1901, peaking in 2022. 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.