Rana

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rana: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rana: Recorded since 1967, it reached #302 in 1982, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
84times a registrar ranked it
59years from first to last
#302highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#2152
1998	#2165
1999	#1805
2000	#1831
2001	#1520
2002	#1928
2003	#1176
2004	#1383
2005	#1343
2006	#1585
2007	#2085
2008	#1302
2009	#1004
2010	#1731
2011	#1374
2012	#1720
2013	#2313
2014	#1702
2015	#2328
2016	#2233
2017	#1733
2018	#1977
2019	#1940
2020	#1939
2021	#1962
2022	#1621
2023	#1525
2024	#1743

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 24 of the 51 years from 1967 to 2017.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1525 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1967–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #576 among girls in Norway in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1967–2017
Highest recorded position: #302 among girls in Norway, in 1982 (recorded 1967–2017).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1743 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rana appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 429 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Girls, from 1967.

Rana across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rana's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#576 (1967)	#302 (1982)	#508 (2017)	24 of 51	152 (1967–2017)	15 (1982)
England and Wales · Girls	#1646 (1996)	#1004 (2009)	#1743 (2024)	29 of 29	429 (1996–2024)	32 (2009)
England and Wales · Boys	#1761 (1997)	#1761 (1997)	#2263 (2024)	25 of 28	146 (1997–2024)	10 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#677 (2004)	#856 (2023)	5 of 20	16 (2004–2023)	4 (2008)

Rana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rana in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	33	4 of 10	8
2000s	162	10 of 10	16
2010s	151	10 of 10	15
2020sbusiest	83	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rana appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #302 in Norway in 1982.

Rana's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1743	17	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1621	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1374	22	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1004	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1302	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1343	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1176	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#508	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#486	7	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#606	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#575	5	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#469	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#649	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#678	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#465	9	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#538	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#627	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#571	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#631	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#573	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#498	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#302	15	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#306	14	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#648	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#651	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#640	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#474	7	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#361	11	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#622	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#597	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1967 and 2025, ranked in 49 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #302, first reached in 1982.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 37 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Randi · #7, 75y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Suzanna · #300, 44y
Yasin · #297, 51y
Larisa · #309, 48y
Magda · #295, 46y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Amanuel · #302, 43y
Carolina · #302, 57y
Cicilie · #302, 24y
Lourda · #303, 10y

Rana was ranked #302 in Norway · Girls in 1982. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rana and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rana without appearing here.

Rana moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2313 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1702 and #4684.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #5119.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1520 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Rana

Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2578 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3208 and #1190.
Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2901 and #924.
Cooper Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2901 and #1110.
Lars Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2901 and #1110.

Moved the opposite way to Rana

Hannah Compare
Between 1976 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Rana went from #361 to #508 while Hannah went from #501 to #75.
Mathilde Compare
Between 1976 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Rana went from #361 to #508 while Mathilde went from #616 to #37.
Melissa Compare
Between 1976 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Rana went from #361 to #508 while Melissa went from #521 to #170.
Natalie Compare
Between 1976 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Rana went from #361 to #508 while Natalie went from #570 to #155.

Moved the same way as Rana

Garry Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rana went from #1761 to #3112 and Garry from #914 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rana went from #1761 to #3112 and Graeme from #874 to #4107.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rana went from #1761 to #3112 and Kelly from #1454 to #3523.
Brent Compare
Between 1997 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Rana went from #1761 to #2755 and Brent from #725 to #3449.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #302 in Norway in 1982. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rana

Rana at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rana across 4 official records

Rana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rana appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Rana across 4 official records

Rana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rana appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Rana

Rana and the names beside it

Rana moved ahead of

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