Rainer Forename
2,538th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 406,233 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany
Rainer Forename Definition:
A Teutonic name, meaning: Prudent warrior.
Rainer Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 367,902 | 1:263 | 66 |
| Austria | 100% | 10,472 | 1:813 | 172 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 4,041 | 1:2,033 | 397 |
| Finland | 100% | 3,165 | 1:1,732 | 332 |
| United States | 100% | 2,921 | 1:124,114 | 5,163 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,778 | 1:120,493 | 6,304 |
| Estonia | 100% | 1,618 | 1:813 | 197 |
| Philippines | 99% | 1,427 | 1:74,288 | 4,657 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 1,234 | 1:24,475 | 1,919 |
| Tanzania | 62% | 1,216 | 1:43,411 | 3,355 |
| Canada | 100% | 908 | 1:36,490 | 2,716 |
| Poland | 100% | 754 | 1:50,434 | 1,356 |
| Ghana | 100% | 730 | 1:36,967 | 2,200 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 641 | 1:48,070 | 5,572 |
| Sweden | 100% | 577 | 1:17,085 | 1,256 |
| South Africa | 99% | 570 | 1:95,671 | 7,903 |
| Indonesia | - | 494 | 1:522,194 | 38,835 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 439 | 1:23,761 | 2,105 |
| Belgium | 100% | 381 | 1:30,158 | 1,901 |
| Thailand | 100% | 374 | 1:187,342 | 12,679 |
| England | 100% | 372 | 1:149,470 | 4,902 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 292 | 1:57,884 | 3,747 |
| Norway | 100% | 273 | 1:18,800 | 1,163 |
| Peru | 100% | 269 | 1:118,184 | 3,948 |
| France | 100% | 268 | 1:248,024 | 3,655 |
| Denmark | - | 235 | 1:24,040 | 1,300 |
| Spain | 100% | 206 | 1:225,874 | 4,344 |
| Colombia | 100% | 194 | 1:246,283 | 5,256 |
| Australia | - | 177 | 1:77,162 | 3,114 |
| Italy | 100% | 170 | 1:359,189 | 4,252 |
| New Zealand | - | 160 | 1:28,350 | 1,926 |
| Mexico | 100% | 138 | 1:899,597 | 7,703 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 117 | 1:324 | 81 |
| Portugal | - | 101 | 1:103,078 | 2,758 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 90 | 1:117,793 | 2,732 |
| Chile | 100% | 88 | 1:200,082 | 3,687 |
| Ecuador | - | 85 | 1:208,552 | 3,523 |
| Greece | 100% | 77 | 1:142,007 | 3,344 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 77 | 1:7,325 | 680 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 73 | 1:417,122 | 19,251 |
| Czechia | 100% | 72 | 1:148,002 | 1,370 |
| Ireland | 100% | 69 | 1:67,297 | 1,945 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 68 | 1:70,117 | 2,673 |
| Cuba | - | 66 | 1:174,342 | 2,713 |
| China | - | 53 | 1:25,774,637 | 60,738 |
| Romania | 100% | 49 | 1:409,224 | 11,682 |
| Singapore | 100% | 46 | 1:136,675 | 7,853 |
| Hungary | 100% | 43 | 1:227,716 | 1,150 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 41 | 1:174,439 | 11,761 |
| India | 100% | 38 | 1:31,970,473 | 641,623 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 38 | 1:190,442 | 3,194 |
| Malta | - | 34 | 1:12,628 | 1,146 |
| Panama | 100% | 30 | 1:130,219 | 5,854 |
| Scotland | 100% | 22 | 1:243,198 | 4,001 |
| Croatia | 100% | 20 | 1:210,854 | 3,596 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 20 | 1:2,274,995 | 5,472 |
| Argentina | 92% | 17 | 1:2,516,073 | 8,541 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 17 | 1:947,555 | 4,610 |
| Hong Kong | - | 16 | 1:484,545 | 4,322 |
| Wales | 100% | 15 | 1:206,287 | 3,673 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 14 | 1:1,101,701 | 37,489 |
| Aruba | - | 13 | 1:7,983 | 1,397 |
| Albania | 94% | 12 | 1:253,881 | 12,076 |
| Jamaica | - | 12 | 1:240,269 | 7,382 |
| Namibia | - | 12 | 1:200,348 | 5,052 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 11 | 1:547,121 | 9,117 |
| Russia | 100% | 11 | 1:13,112,155 | 45,377 |
| Honduras | 100% | 10 | 1:881,747 | 10,598 |
| Qatar | 100% | 10 | 1:236,960 | 22,379 |
| Uganda | 80% | 10 | 1:4,095,692 | 39,987 |
| Egypt | - | 9 | 1:10,211,216 | 21,716 |
| Israel | 90% | 9 | 1:933,658 | 13,501 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Vietnam | - | 9 | 1:10,291,457 | 4,134 |
| Japan | - | 8 | 1:15,998,257 | 41,670 |
| Monaco | 100% | 8 | 1:4,808 | 802 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Cambodia | - | 5 | 1:3,254,666 | 31,163 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| Kenya | 100% | 5 | 1:9,261,422 | 35,582 |
| Micronesia | - | 5 | 1:21,300 | 626 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 5 | 1:1,630,463 | 100,826 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 5 | 1:1,062,013 | 3,906 |
| Uruguay | - | 5 | 1:685,527 | 7,487 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 4 | 1:460,786 | 2,461 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| El Salvador | - | 4 | 1:1,585,446 | 8,153 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Malawi | - | 4 | 1:4,278,078 | 13,569 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Nigeria | - | 4 | 1:44,391,090 | 271,718 |
| Sudan | 100% | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Turkey | 100% | 4 | 1:19,450,427 | 45,600 |
| Afghanistan | - | 3 | 1:10,874,505 | 40,253 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 3 | 1:64,785,893 | 186,184 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 3 | 1:63,999 | 3,481 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 3 | 1:453,806 | 18,410 |
| Armenia | - | 2 | 1:1,459,376 | 10,220 |
| Belarus | 100% | 2 | 1:4,741,192 | 16,466 |
| Cape Verde | - | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:25,615 | 3,101 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 2 | 1:1,775,150 | 6,781 |
| South Korea | - | 2 | 1:2,772,210 | 27,911 |
| Zambia | - | 2 | 1:7,927,397 | 45,785 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Congo | 100% | 1 | 1:5,009,205 | 37,978 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:49,127 | 2,467 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| New Caledonia | - | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 1 | 1:23,769,682 | 193,280 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
The alternate forms: Rainér (1) & Raíner (1) are calculated separately.
Rainer (18,132) may also be a surname.
Rainer Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Teutonic name, meaning: Prudent warrior.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Rainer Forename Popularity
Rainer Demographics
Average Male Rainer Height
176.37 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 353 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
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