Ranier
Ranier was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 199 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ranier by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ranier?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,317, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1989, the peak
Ranier peaked in 1989, when 14 boys were given it, #3,968 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #12,317 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,604 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,379 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,923 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,771 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,815 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,730 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,107 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,551 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,010 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 11 | #4,912 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,968 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,270 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,861 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,392 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,601 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,066 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,048 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,215 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,048 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,746 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,668 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,093 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,394 | 6.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,606 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ranier a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ranier has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ranier: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ranier, and how old are they?
An estimated 188 Americans named Ranier and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 337 people named Ranier (16 women and girls, 321 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,759 babies since 1880, Ranier is the fourth most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 90 babies recorded by SSA was a Ranier (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ranier
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 Ranier and names like it
- Compare Ranier and RainerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRanier peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Ranier.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ranier alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.