Meaning not yet researched.
Rania: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,660 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,660 in 2006; #2,682 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rania in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,682 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,660.
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Rania: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,660 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 128 (2006).
In 2025, 65 US girls were named Rania, making it the 2,682nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 674 places from #2,008 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 98 girls named Rania in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,660, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 128. For comparison, it was #1,981 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rania in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 3,135 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,024 babies named Rania.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 864 US girls were named Rania; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rania ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,368 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rana (4,732 babies since 1880), Ania (3,315 babies since 1880), Raniyah (2,185 babies since 1880) and Raniya (1,597 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rani, Rainie and Raini 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 and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rani (2,126), Rainie (700), Raini (580), Raney (413), Raniah (401), Ranny (280), Raynie (277), Rannie (250), Ranyah (194), Rayni (149), Ranie (120), Ranyia (70), and more.
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 Rania in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 6 | #1,368 | #1,607 |
| New York | 9 | #1,495 | #1,467 |
| California | 6 | #3,026 | #2,671 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,687 | #1,789 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 2024 | 98 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 2021 | 82 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 2020 | 80 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 2015 | 101 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2010 | 124 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,468 | — | — |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,803 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,951 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,763 | — | — |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,768 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,907 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,759 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,250 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,592 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,319 | — | — |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,636 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,405 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,011 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,039 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,862 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,432 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,090 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,572 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,348 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,376 | — | — |
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).