Rana
#3,167 for girls in 2025, 50 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 96.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1971 · 120 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,553since 1942
Rana over time
Rank among girls' names. Rana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,167 | 50 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #3,215 | 50 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #2,814 | 59 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #2,928 | 56 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #2,739 | 63 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #3,452 | 46 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #3,256 | 50 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,361 | 49 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,718 | 67 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,607 | 65 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,346 | 71 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,745 | 55 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #2,374 | 65 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,205 | 68 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,104 | 69 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #2,158 | 64 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,041 | 68 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,189 | 61 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,999 | 70 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,933 | 72 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,781 | 81 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #1,769 | 76 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #1,660 | 78 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,531 | 83 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,866 | 60 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,710 | 67 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,593 | 70 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,644 | 67 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,599 | 73 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,406 | 87 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,448 | 84 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,338 | 92 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,212 | 103 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,141 | 111 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,078 | 113 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,043 | 114 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,176 | 95 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #1,143 | 96 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,181 | 91 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,026 | 120 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,144 | 101 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,290 | 76 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,459 | 60 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,598 | 50 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,882 | 37 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,768 | 41 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,781 | 43 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,715 | 45 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,113 | 31 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,250 | 28 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,649 | 21 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,760 | 18 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,376 | 23 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,122 | 25 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,480 | 11 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,126 | 23 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,474 | 17 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,726 | 14 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,188 | 20 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rana! It came in at #4,124, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rana
- 528 spots since 2024 (#3,695 → #3,167)
- 76 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #3,167)
- 262 spots since 2015 (#3,429 → #3,167)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1971 at #1,026 (120 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,788 girls born in 1975 were named Rana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,145 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,026 in 1971, was only 1 in 13,865 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.8% of all girls named Rana (1,036) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 84 | #2,188 (1948) | #3,337 |
| 1950s | 169 | #2,122 (1954) | #2,840 |
| 1960s | 432 | #1,290 (1969) | #1,851 |
| 1970s | 1,036 | #1,026 (1971) | #1,148 |
| 1980s | 745 | #1,406 (1981) | #1,623 |
| 1990s | 658 | #1,781 (1990) | #2,133 |
| 2000s | 596 | #2,304 (2001) | #2,799 |
| 2010s | 526 | #2,739 (2016) | #3,128 |
| 2020s | 307 | #2,604 (2022) | #3,184 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rana in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 15,448 of them was named Rana, which outranked 88.5% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,169Loren96
- #1,169Meridith96
- #1,169Portia96
- #1,176Rana95
- #1,176Alycia95
- #1,176Cami95
- #1,176Crissy95
- #1,185Agnes94
- #1,185Amalia94
- #1,185Dalia94
Tied with 8 names at #1,176; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 314,467 of them was named Rana, which outranked 12.9% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 777 names at #5,227; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.