Rana
Rana is given to both girls and boys: 50 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,203 among girls’ names and #6,070 among boys’, #4,729 among all names counting both); 4,732 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,500 Americans named Rana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 19 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rana?
#3,203 among girls’ names, 2025
Rana rose from #3,466 in 2015 to #3,203 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 25.8 to 31.1 per million.
120 babies in 1971, the peak
Rana peaked in 1971, when 120 girls were given it, #1,032 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,203 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,741 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,373 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,631 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,245 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,129 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,845 | 35.2 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,956 | 32.9 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,537 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,756 | 35.6 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,466 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,176 | 29.1 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,036 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,082 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,488 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,294 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,397 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,746 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,417 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,457 | 24.7 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,622 | 35.2 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,767 | 32.1 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,359 | 38.9 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,767 | 30.6 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,317 | 38.3 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,391 | 35.8 |
| 1999 | 68 | #2,216 | 38.3 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,114 | 39.1 |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,167 | 36.8 |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,051 | 38.8 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,207 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,015 | 39.2 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,803 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,173 | 33.6 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,946 | 38.4 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,789 | 42.7 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,778 | 41.2 |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,667 | 43.8 |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,542 | 47.7 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,879 | 35.0 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,723 | 38.9 |
| 1984 | 70 | #1,598 | 41.6 |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,659 | 40.1 |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,606 | 43.1 |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,417 | 52.2 |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,456 | 50.6 |
| 1979 | 92 | #1,346 | 57.3 |
| 1978 | 103 | #1,216 | 67.2 |
| 1977 | 111 | #1,145 | 72.4 |
| 1976 | 113 | #1,084 | 77.1 |
| 1975 | 114 | #1,046 | 78.2 |
| 1974 | 95 | #1,184 | 64.7 |
| 1973 | 96 | #1,149 | 65.8 |
| 1972 | 91 | #1,189 | 59.8 |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,032 | 72.1 |
| 1970 | 101 | #1,150 | 57.8 |
| 1969 | 76 | #1,298 | 45.0 |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,469 | 36.6 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,612 | 30.3 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,903 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,793 | 23.2 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,797 | 22.7 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,730 | 23.3 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,145 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,286 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,706 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,842 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,436 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,133 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,021 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,064 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,175 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,630 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,187 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,551 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,374 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,820 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,241 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,942 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,849 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,615 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,097 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,434 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,522 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,732 Americans recorded as Rana, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rana, and how old are they?
4,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,732 Americans ever recorded as Rana. The median Rana alive today is 37 years old; half are between 19 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 8,124 people named Rana (7,388 women and girls, 736 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,216 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 314 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 979 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 799 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rana born?
The states with the most babies named Rana are California, New York and Michigan, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 505 | #1,820 | 0.9× |
| New York | 372 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 328 | #1,367 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 191 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 169 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 106 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 78 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 39 | #1,332 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rana is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1942 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,511 babies since 1880, Rana is the fourth most given (9.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 1,322 babies (4.9%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rana and names like it
- Compare Rana and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRana peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rana since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Rana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.