Reinett as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Reinett

What is the meaning of the name Reinett ?

The baby name Reinett is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced reɪˈnɛt (ray-NET),raɪˈnɛt (rye-NET),ʁəˈnɛt (French reh-NET).

Reinett is French, Germanic in Origin.

Reinett is a rare feminine name most plausibly a streamlined variant of French Reinette, the diminutive of Reine (“queen”), from Latin Regina, giving the meaning “little queen.” The dropped final e reflects Anglicized and Southern African spellings and may be reinforced by the Huguenot surname Reinet/Reynet - familiar in South Africa through place-name Graaff-Reinet.

As Reinette, it functioned as a pet form in early modern France and spread with Huguenot migration to the Low Countries and the Cape, where Reinette/Reinet/Reinett appear in parish and civil records from the 19th–20th centuries. The homonymy with French pomme reinette apples added a quaint, old-world association. Variants and cognates include Reinette, Reinet, Renette; Reine (Fr.); Regina (Lat./Int.); Reina (Sp.), Raina/Rayna (Slavic); and Raine (Eng.). Nicknames: Rei, Rea, Nette, Nettie. While some read it through German rein “pure,” that is secondary to the “queen” lineage.