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RAINA | RAINI | RAININI | RAINO | RAINONE | RAINONI | REINA

Raina has a Lombard strain in Milan and Voghera and a Piedmontese one in Dronero (CN), Vercelli, Alessandria and Torino, Raini, very very rare has a small strain in Milan and one in Arezzo, Rainini, absolutely rare, is specific to the Milanese, Trezzo Sull'adda and Milan, Raino, very very rare, is Taviano in Leccese, Rainone has a log in Prato, one in Rome, a Princiopale in Campania, in particular in Palma Campania, Napoli, San Gennaro Vesuviano, Casoria, Nola and Carbonara di Nola in Naples, Sarno, Mercato San Severino and Battipaglia in Salernitano, at Frasso Telesino in the Beneventano, at Orta di Atella in Caserta and Calitri in Avellinese, and in Foggia and cloths, Rainoni, very very rare, is Lombard, in particular of vailate in the Cremonese, Reina has a large strain in the area Covered by the provinces of Milan and Varese, they should all derive, directly or through hypochoristic or accreitive forms, from the Lombard name Ragin which derives from the Lombard term Ragin (Divine Council, illuminated) a derivative of it is Raginpert name brought By the Lombard king of the years 700 and 701, the use of these names we find for example in 1320 in Valtellina in an act of sale that mentions a certain Orsatto and Petruzio Tigiurtinus was Raino di Grosotto, who sell to Nicola Lambertengi of Federico, Vico di Como , inhabitant in Grosotto, a fund always in the grounder, we find examples of the use of these hypochoristic or accreitive for example in 1100 in Sannio with the feudal lord Rainone Brettone, and at the beginning of 1200 with Rainone of the removed that is excommunicated in 1230 by Gregory IX , the Reina who were born as De reign and then as De Regnis already in 1200 were part of the Milanese Patriziato, in 1519 we find Azzone Rejna as vicar of Provisione, in 1650 to Melchiorre Reina is entrusted the fief of Cassina de ' Ferrari (MI).

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/

REGINA | REGINI | REINA | REINI

Regina is typical of the south, of Naples, Mormanno (CS), Grumo Appula (BA), Castel di Lucio (ME), Syracuse and Alcamo (TP), Regini is more than central Italy, Tuscany, Marche and Lazio, with a strain also in the Venetian, Reina would appear to be native to western Sicily, but There are Lombard strains treated apart, Reini is almost unique, derive either directly or from the dialectal form of the Late Latin name Regina (referred to the Madonna = Regina coeli).

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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