Ranko

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ранко in MK North Macedonia.

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◐

Ranko is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Japanese given name674 records spelled Ranko2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, United States

  Also written Rankô

• Polish given name203 records spelled Ranko2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland

  Also written Rańko

42 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●

Ranko is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, "early."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Polish, synonym of rano (“in the morning”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In izh, synonym of ranka

  as a word·kaikki.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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ranko Sawab. 1903JPJapanese actress
• Ranko Marinkovićb. 1913HRCroatian writer (1913–2001)
• Ranko Hanaib. 1918JPactress (1918-1961)
• Ranko Žeravicab. 1929RSSerbian basketball coach (1929–2015)
• Ranko Mizukib. 1929JPJapanese actor and seiyū
• Ranko Krivokapićb. 1961MEMontenegrin politician
• Ranko Ostojićb. 1962HRCroatian politician
• Ranko Zidarićb. 1965HRCroatian theater, television and film actor
• Ranko Popovićb. 1967RSSerbian association football player and manager
• Ranko Matasovićb. 1968HRCroatian linguist

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 · 146 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ranko?

We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Ranko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Ranko have the most bearers?

Ranko is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled ranko.

How common is Ranko compared with other names?

In Serbia, Ranko is the 182nd most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Ranko a male or female name?

Ranko is a male 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 Ranko mean?

Recorded meaning: A male given name from the Slavic languages.