Ranav
#8,761 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ranav has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #8,761 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Ranav, 2025
1 in 368,000
Ranav 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ranav?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,761
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ranav sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ranav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ranavs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ranav was born before 2021 — so the typical Ranav is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 86.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 52
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 86.5% of all recorded uses (45).
Is Ranav 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
- +3,261
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,824
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 75.0%
- Peak was 2020 (12)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ranav
Ranav is not the most common spelling — Randy is, with 67.9% against Ranav's 0.01%.
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.
Ranav around the world
Where Ranav 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 & Wales2018–2022#4,790in 2022
- Canada2022–2022#2,778in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Ranav by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ranav
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ranav
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.