girls:
10 births since 2014
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
89 births since 1887
#4497 (2nd percentile)
overall:
99 births since 1887
#7640 (1st percentile)
The name Ran is the #7,640 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 99 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,497 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 89 births since 1887. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2014.
Ran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Ran is available in 18 out of the 137 years between 1887 and 2023 (16 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ran has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ran were boys.
For boys, Ran reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #685) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ran ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ran reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ran".
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