Ranee

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rana in BD Bangladesh, US United States, PK Pakistan and 7 more, Rani in IN India, BR Brazil, NL Netherlands and 6 more, Mrs. in MY Malaysia, TH Thailand, NG Nigeria and 3 more and Ranu in ID Indonesia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ranee is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name3.0K records spelled Ranee2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Raneé

• French given name331 records spelled Ranee2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Canada

  Also written Ranèe

• Danish given name92 records spelled Ranee6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Norway

  Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

  Also written Ranée

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ranee 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 English, son of Rand

  as a name·Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 64 years between 1929–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rani Durgavatib. 1524INnot in their usual nameQueen regent of Gondwana (1524–1564)
• Rani Gaidinlub. 1915INnot in their usual nameIndian independence activist (1915–1993)
• Ranee Leeb. 1942CACanadian musician
• Rani Assafb. 1974LBnot in their usual nameFrench businessperson
• Rani Mukerjib. 1978INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (born 1978)
• Rani Yahyab. 1984BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian martial artist
• Ranee Campenb. 1989THThai actress
• Rani Khedirab. 1994DEnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player (born 1994)
• Reileyb. 1997FOnot in their usual nameFaroese singer
• Rani PadmavatiINnot in their usual nameIndian queen

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 100 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ranee?

We estimate roughly 82 thousand people bear Ranee (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Ranee have the most bearers?

Ranee is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rani.

How common is Ranee compared with other names?

In India, Ranee is the 59th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Ranee a male or female name?

Ranee is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Ranee mean?

Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of rani.