Rãna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rãna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 40th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Various origins of surname: * Borrowed from Hindi राणा (rāṇā), a Rajput surname which probably is a back-formation from रानी (rānī, “queen”).
- INIndia1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.3M
- NONorway1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
303,414 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rana in IN India, US United States, AE United Arab Emirates.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Hindiराणाrāṇā(measured from records)
- Hindi rootरानीrānī“queen”(measured from records)
- Italianand(measured from records)
- Italian rootrana“frog”(measured from records)
- GalicianRaña(measured from records)
Various origins of surname: * Borrowed from Hindi राणा (rāṇā), a Rajput surname which probably is a back-formation from रानी (rānī, “queen”). * Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Rana, a nickname for someone with bulging eyes or a croaky voice, from rana (“frog”). * Borrowed from Galician Raña, a habitational surname from a village in the province of A Coruña.
Sources 11
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The African book of names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rãna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 303,414 | 1 in 4.4K | 303K | Rana | 70 |
| US United States | — | 7,145 | 1 in 47K | 9.9K | Rana | 262 |
| ES Spain | — | 979 | 1 in 51K | 979 | — | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | 764 | 1 in 7.2K | 794 | — | 15 |
| PL Poland | — | 556 | 1 in 69K | 468 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 301 | 1 in 20K | 312 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 255 | 1 in 22K | 255 | — | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #40 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Rana | 124 |
303,414 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rãna mean, and where does it come from?
- Various origins of surname: * Borrowed from Hindi राणा (rāṇā), a Rajput surname which probably is a back-formation from रानी (rānī, “queen”). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 9 other sources.
- Is Rãna a male or female name?
- Rãna is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Rãna have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 303 thousand people named Rãna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rana.
- Where is Rãna most common?
- Rãna is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rãna?
- In India, the national register counted 303,414 people named Rãna, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Rãna compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Rãna is the 40th most common surname of 46,019 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rãna” — the 40th most common surname in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.