girls:
1.9k births since 1946
#3937 (31st percentile)
boys:
215 births since 1979
#4371 (5th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1946
#5714 (26th percentile)
The name Rani is the #5,714 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,067 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 26.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,937 (31.1% percentile) for all time with 1,852 births since 1946. For boys, it ranks #4,371 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 215 births since 1979.
Rani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Rani is available in 74 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023 (74 years for girls and 30 years for boys). 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 Rani has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Rani were girls.
For girls, Rani reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #730) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rani ranks #927 for girls (2.1% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 54.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rani reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #895) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 7 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 "Rani".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.5% confident that Rani is pronounced as RAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-NEE, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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