Raine is usually explained from the French reine, meaning "queen", though most American parents hear it as a spelling of the weather word "rain". It became visible in the 1980s through Raine Spencer, stepmother of Princess Diana, and has since joined Rayne and Reign among the short, modern-sounding girls' names. Raine peaked at number 1377 in 2021 and ranks number 1556 in the United States in 2025.