Buy JPG Image ». Raines is a name that was brought to England by the ancestors of the Raines family when they emigrated following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name Raines comes from the short forms of various Germanic personal names containing the element Ragin, meaning counsel. It it thought that the name could also have been derived from Rennes, in Brittany. CITATION[CLOSE] Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom.