Ranae
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ranae has been given to 2,439 babies in the U.S. since 1931. 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 1962, with 82 recorded.
Babies named Ranae, 2024
1 in 557,000
Ranae over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ranae?
Ranae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ranae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ranae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ranaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ranae was born before 1967 — so the typical Ranae is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 24.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,155
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (608).
Is Ranae 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (82)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Ranae
Ranae is not the most common spelling — Jane is, with 21.6% against Ranae's 0.14%.
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 Ranae is used
Across 1910–2025, Ranae was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 106,279 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 4,762
- 2Iowa1 in 20,000
- 3Idaho1 in 33,333
- 4Minnesota1 in 50,000
- 5Michigan1 in 100,000
- 6South Dakota1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Colorado1 in —
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. Ranae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ranae around the world
Where Ranae 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.
- England & Wales1999–2012#5,876in 2012
- South Australia1971–1983#686in 1983
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ranae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ranae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Ranae
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ranae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Ranae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.