Ranker
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: comparative form of rank: more rank
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹæŋkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ranker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 451K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 723K
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.5M
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
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 451K (inferred from the name graph)
460 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
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)
comparative form of rank: more rank
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ranker is read(measured from records)
Ranker is one spelling over 2 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.
- English82%
comparative form of rank: more rank
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.8%
comparative degree of rank
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ranker 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 460 | 1 in 723K | 521 | Ranker | 20 |
| DE Germany | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Ranker | 55 |
| DK Denmark | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 2 | — | — |
460 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Ranker 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of ranke
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fred Rankerb. 1930DEGerman politician (1930-2009)
- Thomas A. Rankerb. 1952USAmerican botanist, professor and curator (1952 -)
- Kevin Rankerb. 1970USAmerican politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 521 | #39,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 517 | #44,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 460 | #46,314 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #32,266 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Ranker mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative form of rank: more rank Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ranker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹæŋkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ranker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 460 people named Ranker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ranker.
- Where is Ranker most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ranker is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 451 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ranker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 460 people named Ranker in 2010, about 1 in 723 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ranker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rankerThe 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, “Ranker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.