Rania
Rania was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,682 among girls’ names; 3,135 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,090 Americans named Rania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rania?
#2,682 among girls’ names, 2025
Rania fell from #1,981 in 2015 to #2,682 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 56.6 to 40.4 per million.
128 babies in 2006, the peak
Rania peaked in 2006, when 128 girls were given it, #1,660 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,682 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 98 | #2,008 | 60.5 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,350 | 48.6 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,549 | 42.7 |
| 2021 | 82 | #2,263 | 50.0 |
| 2020 | 80 | #2,252 | 49.5 |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,010 | 57.2 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,964 | 59.4 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,926 | 60.8 |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,186 | 50.2 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,981 | 56.6 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,935 | 58.2 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,149 | 50.1 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,091 | 52.2 |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,699 | 70.5 |
| 2010 | 124 | #1,702 | 69.8 |
| 2009 | 110 | #1,912 | 59.9 |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,200 | 48.1 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,742 | 65.0 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,660 | 67.3 |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,446 | 39.0 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,336 | 40.3 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,457 | 36.7 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,281 | 40.1 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,426 | 36.1 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,324 | 36.9 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,843 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,465 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,139 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,798 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,946 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,758 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,762 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,205 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,901 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,201 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,753 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,245 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,600 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,109 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,739 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,591 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,215 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,318 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,833 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,476 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,635 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,405 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,455 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,779 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,028 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,387 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,206 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,010 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,037 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,861 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,430 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,088 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,571 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,347 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,375 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rania, and how old are they?
3,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,135 Americans ever recorded as Rania. The median Rania alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 5,000 people named Rania (4,990 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,648 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 210 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 415 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,150 |
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 Rania born?
The states with the most babies named Rania are New York, California and Illinois, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,495 | 1.6× |
| California | 6 | #3,026 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,368 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,687 | 0.7× |
Where Rania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rania is most over-represented in New York: since 1963 it was given 1.6 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 Rania 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 42,109 babies since 1880, Rania is the fourth most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 883 babies (7.4%), again the fourth most given.
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 Rania
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 Rania and names like it
- Compare Rania and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRania peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rania since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Rania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.