Ranu

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 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●

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◐

Ranu 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 name7.4K records spelled Ranu5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan

  Also written Rānū, Rāṇu, Rānu, Ranù

• English given name6.0K records spelled Ranu9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Netherlands, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ranue, Ṛanu, Ranü, Rãnü

• French given name175 records spelled Ranu3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, India, United States

  Also written Ranù

36 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●

Ranu 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 dun, water

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

• In Finnish, french fry, fry, chip (strip of deep-fried potato that has been cut into strips)

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

• In Māori, gravy, juice of anything cooked

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Polish, dative singular of rano

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

• In meu, water; juice; liquid

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 88 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 224 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ranu?

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

In which country does Ranu have the most bearers?

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

How common is Ranu compared with other names?

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

Is Ranu a male or female name?

Ranu 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 Ranu mean?

Recorded meaning: , (Ard) ; Rama (ib), cf.