Given name & surname

Rine

Rine is a surname from German. It is used in English and Norwegian Bokmål.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Rine comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Rine is a short form of Karine. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Rine is a short form of Severine.

Rine’s family of names

In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Rine is a short form of Karine. In English usage, Rine as a surname has a related form in REIN. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Rine is a short form of Severine.

Walk Rine’s family in the name graph

RineΡίνεKarineReinSeverineKatarine

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Rine has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.

Norwegian BokmålGerman

5 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 4

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Similar names

If you love Rine, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

German

Runte

“mud”

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German

Reppe

Reppe is a surname from German.

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Germanic

Reineke

Reineke is a surname from Middle Low German, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in German.

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German

Radtke

Radtke is a surname from German. It is used in English and Polish.

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German

Reschke

Reschke is a surname from German.

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German

Riska

Riska is a surname, possibly from Middle Low German. It is used in Finnish.

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20% boys · 80% girls

German

Renk

Renk is a surname from German.

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German

Riehm

“strip, belt”

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Rine’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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