Girls' name · since 1920
Ranie
120 babies named Ranie in U.S. Social Security records since 1920, with the highest year being 1958. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #25,138 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 120
- born since 1920
- 1970s
- peak decade
Ranie sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 120 recorded since 1920.
Ranie has 120 recorded births among girls since 1920, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1920 to 2006.
- #25,138 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 120 born since 1920
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ranie ranks #25,138 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 120 born since 1920, peaking in the 1970s.
- #25,138 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 120
- born since 1920
- 1970s
- peak decade
Ranie's 120 recorded births place it above 65.21% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Ranie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Ranie's SSA record in two at 1976 and the more recent half accounts for 40% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 60%, consistent with a name more common in the past than in recent years. Its calmest year was 1920, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1958 peak of 26, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Ranie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1920–2006
- Peak year (1958)
- 26
- Annual births at peak, across 87 years of records
Ranie by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (35 births, 29% of the file).
1970s was Ranie's strongest decade.
35 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 29% of all-time use.
Ranie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s 5
1920s
5 births
- 1950s
1950s
26 births
- 1960s
1960s
22 births
- 1970s
1970s
35 births
- 1980s 11
1980s
11 births
- 1990s 10
1990s
10 births
- 2000s 11
2000s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 35 births (29% of all-time use).
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- Ranie's decade-level peak was the 1970s (35 total births); usage has since declined to 11 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1920–2006 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Ranie draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.