Ranisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ranisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 584 babies named Ranisha between 1973 and 2009, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ranisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 49 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ranisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 307 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ranisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ranisha in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ranisha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 584 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.