Runa
Runa was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,771 among girls’ names; 624 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Runa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Runa?
#2,771 among girls’ names, 2025
Runa rose from #6,928 in 2015 to #2,771 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 38.6 per million.
70 babies in 2020, the peak
Runa peaked in 2020, when 70 girls were given it, #2,494 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,771 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,851 | 36.4 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,881 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,950 | 34.8 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,669 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,494 | 43.3 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,161 | 30.4 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,430 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,786 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,610 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,928 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,990 | 8.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,465 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,011 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,666 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,914 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,880 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,936 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,710 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,040 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,551 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,371 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,046 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Runa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Runa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Runa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Runa, and how old are they?
An estimated 620 Americans named Runa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 669 people named Runa (658 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 268 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Runa
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 Runa and names like it
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- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Runa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Runa alive today were born 2013-2025.
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