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Ranjit

Boys' name

Coloured, pleased, delighted

Ranjit has been given to 153 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1980, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Ranjit, 1996

1 in 405,000

Ranjit over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ranjit: meaning, origin, and history

Coloured, pleased, delighted

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ranjit means

Ranjit means “coloured, pleased, delighted”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ranjit is used in Hindi, Marathi and Bengali.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 153 boys were recorded with the name Ranjit between 1967 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,520 in 1969.

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.

How common is Ranjit?

Ranjit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996
1 in 405,000
9 of 3,646,048 births
Among boys only
1 in 210,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1996
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
280,806 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ranjit sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 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 280,806 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ranjit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ranjits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ranjit was born before 1980 — so the typical Ranjit is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
153
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Ranjit 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 1980 (10)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,520
1969

Spellings of Ranjit

Ranjit is not the most common spelling — Randi is, with 28.5% against Ranjit's 3.8%.

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 Ranjit is used

Across 1910–2025, Ranjit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Ranjit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ranjit around the world

Where Ranjit 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 & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–1995
    #1,910
    in 1995

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.

Ranjit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,520
1969
Peak year
1980
10 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
153
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ranjit

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

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Sibling names for Ranjit

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

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