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Rainey
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A surname of Irish origin, also used as a female given name.
"Ma Rainey was a pioneering blues singer."
Word Forms
Raineys plural
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Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Raighne, a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse name Rognvaldr.