Ranya
Ranya was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,065 among girls’ names; 998 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ranya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ranya?
#7,065 among girls’ names, 2025
Ranya fell from #4,953 in 2015 to #7,065 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 10.0 per million.
47 babies in 2005, the peak
Ranya peaked in 2005, when 47 girls were given it, #3,305 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,065 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,873 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,962 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,160 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,938 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,806 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,267 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,421 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,299 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,816 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,953 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,905 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,136 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,901 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,649 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,473 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,256 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,694 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,519 | 24.4 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,337 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,305 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,253 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,286 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,782 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,132 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,933 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,414 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,083 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,412 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,023 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,639 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,463 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,937 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,180 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,030 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,425 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,994 | 6.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,298 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,020 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,896 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,726 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,940 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,661 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,056 | 6.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,804 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,443 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,962 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,463 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ranya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ranya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ranya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ranya, and how old are they?
An estimated 985 Americans named Ranya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,185 people named Ranya (1,176 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 895 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,454 babies since 1880, Ranya is the eighth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 864 babies (1.9%), the seventh 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 Ranya
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 Ranya and names like it
- Compare Ranya and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRanya peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ranya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Ranya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ranya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.