girls:
4.5k births since 1942
#2548 (55th percentile)
boys:
151 births since 1974
#4435 (3rd percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1942
#4020 (48th percentile)
The name Rana is the #4,020 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,613 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 48.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,548 (55.4% percentile) for all time with 4,462 births since 1942. For boys, it ranks #4,435 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 151 births since 1974.
Rana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (1942 for girls and 1974 for boys).
The name Rana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rana reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 15.0% percentile (ranked #654) with 68 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 73 births per million (ranked 14.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Rana ranks #904 for girls (4.5% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 37.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rana reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #892) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rana".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.8% confident that Rana is pronounced as RAH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RA-nuh, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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