Rani

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rani is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 59th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The wife of a rajah.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 222◐
  • INIndia1 in 534
  • MYMalaysia1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈82K ●

across 9 countries

#664 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
284 ●

6.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.5K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

RaniLatin · Hindi●2.4M records
ระThai · Thai●2.3K records
রনBengali · Bangla●33 records
ᲠანიGeorgian · Georgian●14 records
ΡανίGreek · Greek●1 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rana in BD Bangladesh, US United States, PK Pakistan and 7 more, Mrs. in MY Malaysia, TH Thailand, NG Nigeria and 3 more, Ranu in ID Indonesia and Ranee in AR Argentina.

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●

The wife of a rajah.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Rani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#595,257,0023.5M rec.—303KRani246
BD Bangladesh#4021,172,66832K rec.—listedRana65
US United States—73,782376K rec.1 in 4.5K74KRana284
MY Malaysia#8240,8721.6M rec.——Mrs.45
PK Pakistan#34032,60134K rec.—listedRana128
GB United Kingdom—16,35539K rec.—listedRana121
TH Thailand—12,196101K rec.——Mrs.71
AU Australia—12,13795K rec.—3Rana160
NG Nigeria#9896,35912K rec.——Mrs.30
BR Brazil—5,0962.7K rec.1 in 42K5.1KRani18
CA Canada—4,91740K rec.—3Rana104
PH Philippines—4,69813K rec.——Rana49

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi2.4M65%
  • English298K8%
  • Telugu240K6%
  • Assamese240K6%
  • Bangla176K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi2,448,97065%
English298,3828%
Telugu240,4216%
Assamese240,4116%
Bangla176,0415%

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◐

Rani is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name147K records spelled Rani7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malagasy

    Also written 'Rani, Rani', Ràni, Ráni

  • a separate given name79K records spelled Rani8 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Rānī, Rāṇi, Räni, Rāni, Raní

  • Portuguese given name35K records spelled Rani27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written rAñi, Raní, Ràñí, Řãnï, Ranì

  • Arabic given name31K records spelled Rani9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Israel, United States, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written רני, Reni, Rennie, Renny, Renney

  • French given name7.4K records spelled Rani17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Râni, Rānī, Rāñi, Râńî, Rãńī

  • Russian given name4.1K records spelled Rani24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, United States, Czechia

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Czech

    Also written Рани, Рані, Räni, Ràni, Řânì

  • Kannada surname3.0K records spelled Rani9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Kannada, Tamil

    Also written Iraani, ராணி, இராணி, Rāṇi, Raani

49 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●

Rani 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 English, Sanskrit; a queen

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  • queen or princess

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • (Hin) queen

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

  • Reina

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In rom, female equivalent of raj: madam, Mrs, lady

    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.

Over time●

010K20K30K19001950200023K · 1992

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Rani in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1896–2017
Yearrecords
18961
189917
19004
19011
19072
19081
19111
19122
19131
191410
19153
191619
191724
191830
191921
192050
192147
192292
1923136
192478
192582
192690
192795
192890
1929245
1930152
1931193
1932304
1933225
1934455
1935280
1936435
1937476
1938443
1939629
1940473
1941623
1942933
1943703
19441,147
1945962
19461,354
19471,332
19481,163
19491,555
19501,497
19511,528
19522,156
19531,557
19542,397
19552,102
19562,591
19572,564
19582,934
19594,180
19603,745
19613,814
19626,182
19634,767
19647,036
19655,573
19667,502
19678,111
19687,779
19698,641
19709,253
19719,255
197211,644
19739,970
197410,108
197511,369
197612,999
197713,792
197814,465
197913,828
198011,819
198116,544
198218,740
198320,258
198419,823
198521,033
198619,561
198722,076
198818,618
198919,619
199018,626
199121,178
199223,434
199323,355
199420,307
199515,824
199611,046
19979,979
19984,783
1999734
200011
20017
20024
20078
20081,830
200911
20102,114
201157
2012314
2013297
20142,152
20151,643
20161
20177

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 109 years between 1896–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Rani Durgavati, b. 1524Rani Rashmoni, b. 1793Rani Gaidinlu, b. 1915Rani Assaf, b. 1974Rani Mukerji, b. 1978Rani Sharone, b. 1978Rani Yahya, b. 1984Rani Khedira, b. 1994Reiley, b. 1997

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●

Attested in 77 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Rani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.8K#5,164
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.7K#2,498
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.2K#13,099
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,189
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.1K#8,797
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—853#8,237
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—774#5,549
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—774#5,545
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000702#31,235
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020534#5,164
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—516#2,712

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 528 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rani?
We estimate roughly 82 thousand people bear Rani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Rani have the most bearers?
Rani is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rani.
How common is Rani compared with other names?
In India, Rani is the 59th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Rani a male or female name?
Rani 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 Rani mean?
Recorded meaning: The wife of a rajah.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Rani” — the 59th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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