The Raineri surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 626 people carried this name — #35,866 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 476,200 people counted. That is up 9% from 572 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Raineri surname
A surname transferred from the given name.
From the male given name Rainerio, variant form of Raniero.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Raineri» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 892 people named Raineri live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 266 people named Raineri.
54 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
78 people named Raineri live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Raineri,
with a public archive behind them.
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Giovanni Raineri 1858–1944 · politician -
Faustino Raineri d. 1755 · painter
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Antonio Francesco Raineri 1515–1560 · poet
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Francesco Maria Raineri 1676–1758 · painter
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Luigi Raineri Biscia 1744–1826 · writer
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Luigi Raineri Biscia 1744–1820 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Raineri.
- Raimond 182 · U.S. census
- Raimondi 2,418 · U.S. census
- Raimondo 819 · U.S. census
- Rain 915 · U.S. census
- Raina 641 · U.S. census
- Raine 2,109 · U.S. census
- Rainero 151 · U.S. census
- Rainville 2,236 · U.S. census
- Raiola 281 · U.S. census
- Rais 471 · U.S. census
- Raison 375 · U.S. census
- Raja 2,593 · U.S. census
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