Meaning not yet researched.
Rana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,032 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,032 in 1971; #3,203 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Rana in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,203 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #1,032.
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Rana: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,032 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 120 (1971).
In 2025, 50 US girls were named Rana, making it the 3,203rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 538 places from #3,741 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 41 girls named Rana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,032, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 120. For comparison, it was #3,466 in 2015 and #3,375 in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Rana, making it the 6,073rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 662 places from #6,735 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 13 boys named Rana in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,813, reached in 1974. The most boys given the name in a single year was 15, in 2025. For comparison, it was #6,600 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rana in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 6 babies. In all, 4,732 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,041 babies named Rana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 529 US girls were named Rana; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,145 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rania (3,135 babies since 1880), Riana (2,286 babies since 1880), Rayna (13,386 babies since 1880) and Raina (12,453 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ranaya and Ranaye are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic, Seediq and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ranaya (64), Ranaye (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,203 | 15 | #6,073 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,741 | 13 | #6,735 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,631 | 9 | #8,830 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,245 | 8 | #9,496 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,129 | 14 | #6,213 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,845 | 9 | #8,719 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,957 | 7 | #10,485 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,538 | 10 | #8,003 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,756 | 8 | #9,476 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,466 | 13 | #6,600 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,178 | 10 | #7,995 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,037 | 6 | #11,830 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,083 | 7 | #10,506 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,489 | 11 | #7,388 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,417 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,626 | 6 | #11,144 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,771 | 5 | #12,084 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,321 | 6 | #10,249 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,117 | 7 | #8,251 |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,793 | 5 | #9,180 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,782 | 5 | #8,936 |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1984 | 70 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1979 | 92 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1978 | 103 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1977 | 111 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1976 | 113 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1975 | 114 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1974 | 95 | #1,184 | 5 | #5,813 |
| 1973 | 96 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1972 | 91 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1970 | 101 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1969 | 76 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,631 | — | — |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,242 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,944 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,099 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,435 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,524 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).