Ragna

Girls' name

Counsel

Ragna has been given to 201 babies in the U.S. since 1885. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Ragna, 1927

1 in 464,000

Ragna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ragna: meaning, origin, and history

Counsel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ragna means

Ragna means “counsel”, associated with rǫgn.

Origin, language, and formation

Ragna is used in Danish, Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish.

Ragna comes through Old Norse rǫgn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 201 girls were recorded with the name Ragna between 1885 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1915; its best national rank was #786 in 1885.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ragna?

Ragna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1927: 1 in 464,000; 5 of 2,319,281 births
Among girls only: 1 in 238,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1927: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 321,522 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ragna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1927 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 321,522 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ragna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ragnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ragna was born before 1905 — so the typical Ragna is around 120 today.

Median birth year: 1905; About 120 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 41.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 55.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Ragna rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (18)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #786; 1885

Spellings of Ragna

Ragna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 46.3% against Ragna's 0.01%.

Anna46.3%914,859
Dana9.8%193,555
Regina9.3%184,272
Ana5.6%111,359
Ramona3.6%70,874
Lana2.9%57,434
Jana2.3%46,185
Hanna2.1%42,005

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ragna is used

Across 1910–2025, Ragna was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 108,461 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1North Dakota1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ragna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ragna around the world

Where Ragna ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

Norway
1880–2025
#273
in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Ragna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #786; 1885
Peak year: 1915; 18 that year
First recorded: 1885
Last recorded: 1927
All-time count: 201
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ragna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Raghad Digna Ragan Ragen Raguel Ragina Reigna Legna Ragena Signa Ragine Ragad Ragene Ragini Raga Pragna Alegna Ragnhild Benigna Migna Ragin Jigna Megna Aagna

Sibling names for Ragna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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