Rana
Rana is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 41 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 410.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1971120 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1942
- 4,667people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,503 girls have been named Rana in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 120 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1970s alone account for 23%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 164 boys have also been given it, 3.5% of the total.
By decade
In 1971, its biggest year
Rana was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1971 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Rana
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Holleypeak 1984
- Suzanapeak 1979
- Vasilikipeak 1976
- Ranipeak 1971
- Tamarpeak 1977
- Adriapeak 1979
- Melaniepeak 1972
- Timberlypeak 1994
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.