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*Raine, Rain (f) - ''see Regina ('''Meaning''': queen)
*Ralph (m) - St Ralph of Bourges ([[June 21]] - '''Saint''') [http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/saintsr.htm]
*Raymond , Ray (m) - St Rumon ([[August 30]] - '''Sound-alike''') [http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/saintsr.htm]; St Ebremund, Founder & Abbot of Fontenay-Louvet near Séez ([[June 10]] - '''Sound-alike''') [http://www.christopherklitou.com/when_is_my_nameday_e.htm]; St [[Ammon]] ('''Sound-alike'''); St Amon of Toul ([[October 23]] - '''Sound-alike''') [http://www.christopherklitou.com/when_is_my_nameday_e.htm]- see also Roy ('''Derivative''')
*Reagan, Regan (f) - St Reginus, Bishop of Skopel (February 25 - '''Sound-alike'''); St Reginus, Martyr of Cyprus (August 20 - '''Sound-alike''') [http://www.christopherklitou.com/when_is_my_nameday_r.htm]
*Rebecca (f) - St Rebecca, wife of Isaac ([[Sunday of the Forefathers]] - '''Saint''')
*Rowena (f) - St Ruadhán of Lorrha ([[April 15]] - '''Sound-alike''')
*Roxana, Roxanne, Roxy (f) - St [[Photine of Samaria]], or, ''see Aurora'' ('''Meaning''': Bright or Dawn)
*Roy (m) - Venerable Pimen the Great (August 27 - '''Meaning''': in Hebrew, "Shepherd" [from Psalm 22:1 - "The Lord is ''MY SHEPHERD'' " (רֹעִי)]); St. [[Basil the Great]] (January 1 - '''Meaning''': from the Old French 'roy', 'roi': "king", in Greek 'basileus': "king") - see also Raymond, Ray ('''Derivative''')
*Ruby (f) - St Maelrubius ([[April 21]] - '''Sound-alike''') [http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/saintsm.htm]
*Rupert (m) - St [[w:Rupert of Salzburg|Rupert of Salzburg]] ([[March 27]] - '''Saint''')
