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Ranya

#7,065 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Raniya

Ranya has been given to 998 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #7,065 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Ranya, 2025

1 in 207,000

Ranya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ranya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Raniya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ranya means

Ranya is a alternate transcription of Raniya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ranya → Raniya. The family’s proposed meaning is “to gaze, to look intently”, recorded in the naming reference for Raniya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Raniya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 998 girls were recorded with the name Ranya between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,305 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,806 in 2020 to #7,065 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,953 in 2015 to #7,065 in 2025.

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 Ranya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,065
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ranya 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 2025 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ranya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ranyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ranya was born before 2007 — so the typical Ranya is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
998
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Choose a decade

2000s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (354).

Is Ranya 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
+808
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,259
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,112
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.0%
Peak was 2005 (47)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,305
2005

Spellings of Ranya

Ranya is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 32.3% against Ranya's 0.04%.

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 Ranya is used

Across 1910–2025, Ranya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 543,014 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Ranya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ranya around the world

Where Ranya 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
    1996–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • France
    1961–2025
    #1,385
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2022
    #2,577
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1977–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ranya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,065
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,259
Best rank ever
#3,305
2005
Peak year
2005
47 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
998
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Ranya

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

RaneemRaniaRaniyaManyaRandaLanyaRaniVanyaRaneeRaniahAnnyaZanyaDunyaSanyaDonyaJanyaRanaeEnyaRanaRaniyahRaneyRanyahRandieKennya

Sibling names for Ranya

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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