Rania

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Rania: Recorded since 1975, it reached #349 in 2003, and it stood at #436 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
70times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#349highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#1666
1998	#1823
1999	#2770
2000	#2167
2001	#1063
2002	#809
2003	#1129
2004	#1158
2005	#866
2006	#796
2007	#716
2008	#831
2009	#701
2010	#655
2011	#937
2012	#712
2013	#825
2014	#750
2015	#656
2016	#881
2017	#624
2018	#761
2019	#664
2020	#821
2021	#779
2022	#1120
2023	#832
2024	#776

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 35 of the 50 years from 1975 to 2024.

In 2024: #436 among girls in Norway, #776 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1975–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #619 among girls in Norway in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1975–2024
Highest recorded position: #349 among girls in Norway, in 2003 (recorded 1975–2024).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #776 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rania appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 35 years beginning in 1975, and has registered 236 births with the name.

Rania across 3 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.

Rania'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	#619 (1975)	#349 (2003)	#436 (2024)	35 of 50	236 (1975–2024)	13 (2011)
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#624 (2017)	#776 (2024)	29 of 29	1,078 (1996–2024)	67 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#424 (2005)	#424 (2005)	#873 (2017)	5 of 13	20 (2005–2017)	7 (2005)

Rania by decade in Norway · 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 Rania in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	28	5 of 10	6
1980s	34	6 of 10	6
1990s	26	5 of 10	5
2000s	66	9 of 10	7
2010sbusiest	69	8 of 10	9
2020s	13	2 of 10	7

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Rania 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 4 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #349 in Norway in 2003.

Rania'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	#776	48	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#832	43	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1120	30	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#779	47	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#664	59	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#761	51	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#624	67	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#881	42	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#656	62	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#750	52	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#825	46	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#712	57	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#937	38	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#701	52	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#831	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#716	47	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#796	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1158	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1129	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#809	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1063	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#436	6	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#407	7	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#497	5	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#474	6	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#412	9	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#400	10	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#460	7	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#431	9	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#407	10	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#350	13	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#445	9	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#453	8	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#461	8	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#532	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#517	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#593	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#349	11	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#524	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#442	8	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#626	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#630	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#498	7	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#663	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#519	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#586	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#673	4	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#499	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#554	6	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#661	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#504	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#489	7	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#579	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#436	8	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#622	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#619	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	7	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1975 and 2024, ranked in 42 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #349, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 67 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 49 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.

Raneem · #876, 20y
Rani · #1815, 29y
Raniya · #2235, 20y
Raniyah · #1983, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Abdulrahman · #357, 45y
Hadi · #340, 41y
Hussain · #340, 40y
Nour · #321, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Karena · #349, 25y
Alena · #350, 30y
Marsha · #348, 20y
Jaran · #347, 26y

Rania was ranked #349 in Norway · Girls in 2003. 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.

Rania 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 Rania without appearing here.

Rania moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2770 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1063 and #3998.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1063 and #3998.
Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1063 and #3262.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2350 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1666 and #3824.

Moved ahead of Rania

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #664 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #821 and #460.
Aurora Compare
In 1986 they stood at #499 and #628 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #673 and #346.
Iben Compare
In 1992 they stood at #519 and #652 in Norway · Girls; by 1993 that had become #663 and #337.
Aria Compare
In 2010 they stood at #655 and #773 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #937 and #615.

Moved the opposite way to Rania

Bente Compare
Between 1975 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Rania went from #619 to #350 while Bente went from #22 to #568.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rania went from #2350 to #776 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rania went from #2350 to #776 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rania went from #2350 to #776 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.

Moved the same way as Rania

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rania went from #2350 to #776 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rania went from #2350 to #776 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rania went from #2350 to #776 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rania went from #2350 to #776 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 4 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #349 in Norway in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rania

Rania at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rania across 3 official records

Rania by decade in Norway · Girls

Rania appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Rania moved ahead of

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Rania at a glance

Rania across 3 official records

Rania by decade in Norway · Girls

Rania appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Rania

Rania and the names beside it

Rania moved ahead of

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