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Ranny

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ranny has been given to 280 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 1951, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Ranny, 1993

1 in 754,000

Ranny over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ranny: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ranny means

Ranny is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ranny is used in Norwegian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 275 boys were recorded with the name Ranny between 1934 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1951; its best national rank was #1,889 in 1951.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Ranny between 1992 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1992; its best national rank was #14,942 in 1992.

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 Ranny?

Ranny had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 754,000
5 of 3,768,729 births
Among boys only
1 in 392,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
522,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ranny 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ranny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rannys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ranny was born before 1951 — so the typical Ranny is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
155
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Choose a decade

1950s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Ranny 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 1951 (17)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,889
1951

Spellings of Ranny

Ranny is not the most common spelling — Randy is, with 28.0% against Ranny's 0.02%.

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.

Ranny 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
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Best rank ever
#1,889
1951
Peak year
1951
17 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#14,942
1992
Peak year
1992
5 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ranny

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

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Sibling names for Ranny

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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