Rån
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rån is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short form of the various names begin- ning with this syllable, as, for example, - )Randolf, )Ranald, and pRanulf.
- ISIceland1 in 6.6K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 61K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 110K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,849 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ran in US United States, DZ Algeria and Ràn in TN Tunisia.
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)
Short form of the various names begin- ning with this syllable, as, for example, - )Randolf, )Ranald, and pRanulf.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rån 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.
2,849 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rån is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a robbery (act or practice of robbing)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rån mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of the various names begin- ning with this syllable, as, for example, - )Randolf, )Ranald, and pRanulf. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Rån have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Rån, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ran.
- Where is Rån most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rån is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rån?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,849 people named Rån in 2020, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A5nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rån”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.