Trana
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine definite singular of trane
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɹænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 5.5K
- USUnited States≈1 in 775K
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,658 people
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Traña in CR Costa Rica, NI Nicaragua.
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)
feminine definite singular of trane
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #254 | 1,658 | 1 in 3.1K | 1.7K | Traña | 21 |
| NI Nicaragua | #357 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Traña | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 476 | 1 in 11K | 476 | Trana | 10 |
| US United States | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 775K | 423 | Trana | 118 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Trana | 6 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 454K | — | Trana | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 54 | 1 in 189K | 54 | Trana | 8 |
1,658 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 2000; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Trana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of tran
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of trānō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, common crane, Grus grus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, a crane (bird)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, crane (bird)
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)
- Eerikki Antinpoika Tranab. 1586SESwedish military officer
- Erik Andreas Tranab. 1847botanist (1847-1933)
- Erik Tranab. 1888SESwedish architect (1888–1967)
- John Marius Tranab. 1898NONorwegian politician
- Folke Tranab. 1909SESwedish politician (1909-1984)
- Tom Tranab. 1937SESwedish rally driver
- Kjartan Tranab. 1967NONorwegian writer
- Celin Tranab. 1981NONorwegian swimmer
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Trana mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine definite singular of trane Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Trana?
- A machine transcription gives /tɹænə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Trana have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Trana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled traña.
- Where is Trana most common?
- Trana is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Trana?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1,658 people named Trana, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Trana compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Trana is the 254th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Trana?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tranaThe 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, “Trana” — the 254th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.