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Runa

#2,771 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Rune

Runa has been given to 624 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,771 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Runa, 2025

1 in 53,500

Runa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Runa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Rune

Old Norse

What Runa means

Runa is a feminine form of Rune.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Runa → Rune → Rúni. The family’s meaning is “counselor”, recorded in Old Norse with the source elements rūnô.

Origin, language, and formation

Runa is used in Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Runa comes through Old Norse Rúna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rune.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Nynorsk, Runa is pronounced /²rʉːna/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 624 girls were recorded with the name Runa between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 2020; its best national rank was #2,494 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,494 in 2020 to #2,771 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,928 in 2015 to #2,771 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Runa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,771
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Runa 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Runa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Runas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Runa was born before 2020 — so the typical Runa is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
59.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
624
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 59.6% of all recorded uses (372).

Is Runa 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
+80
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−277
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,157
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.6%
Peak was 2020 (70)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,494
2020

Spellings of Runa

Runa is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 17.0% against Runa'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.

Where Runa is used

Across 2016–2025, Runa was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 43,851 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 7,143
  2. 2Washington1 in 8,333
  3. 3Iowa1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Runa around the world

Where Runa 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
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2018
    #434
    in 2018
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #219
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Runa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,771
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 277
Best rank ever
#2,494
2020
Peak year
2020
70 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
624
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Runa

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

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Sibling names for Runa

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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