Ran
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: simple past of run
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ran is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 117K
- CNChina≈1 in 6.5K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 beginning with this syllable, as, for example, - Randolf, Ranald, and pRanulf.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ran is read(measured from records)
Ran is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English24%
simple past of run
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ran in Hindi.
- Hebrew13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ran in Hebrew.
- Chinese5.5%
nonstandard spelling of rán
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ran 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Ran | 17 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Ran | 58 |
| IL Israel | #637 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 52 | Ran | 138 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Ran | 9 |
| US United States | — | 2,849 | 1 in 117K | 6K | Ran | 186 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ran | 14 |
| IS Iceland | — | 53 | 1 in 6.6K | 53 | — | — |
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: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)
Ran is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Short form of the various names beginning with this syllable, as, for example, - Randolf, Ranald, and pRanulf.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Destructora
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Spanish, Amiga
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
English and Scottish: short form of the various names beginning with this syllable, as, for example, RANDOLF , RANALD , and RANULF .
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ran Cohenb. 1937ILIsraeli politician
- Ran Itōb. 1955JPJapanese actress, narrator, singer (1955-)
- Choi Ranb. 1960KRSouth Korean actress
- Ran Razb. 1966ILIsraeli theoretical computer scientist
- Ran Ben-Shimonb. 1970ILIsraeli former association footballer, and current head-coach of the Israel national team
- Ardo Ran Varresb. 1974EEEstonian composer and actor (born 1974)
- Ran Dankerb. 1984USIsraeli actor, singer and model (born 1984)
- Ran Margaliotb. 1988ILcyclist
- Ran Takahashib. 2001JPJapanese volleyball player (Born 2001)
- Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttirb. 2003ISIcelandic football goalkeeper born 2003
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #5,831 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #5,831 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2006 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ran come from?
- Short form of the various names beginning with this syllable, as, for example, - Randolf, Ranald, and pRanulf. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Ran mean?
- In English, simple past of run
- Is Ran a male or female name?
- Ran 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ran?
- In the etymology graph, Lan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 214 thousand people named Ran in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ran.
- How common is the name Ran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,849 people named Ran in 2020, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Ran compared with other names?
- In Israel, Ran is the 637th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ranThe 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, “Ran” — the 637th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.