Runu
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Runu is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 59th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script.
- 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 ●
- #664 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 284 ●
- 1 in 1.5K ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
6.3M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #59 | 5,257,002 | 3.5M rec. | — | 303K | Rani | 246 |
| BD Bangladesh | #402 | 1,172,668 | 32K rec. | — | listed | Rana | 65 |
| US United States | — | 73,782 | 376K rec. | 1 in 4.5K | 74K | Rana | 284 |
| MY Malaysia | #82 | 40,872 | 1.6M rec. | — | — | Mrs. | 45 |
| PK Pakistan | #340 | 32,601 | 34K rec. | — | listed | Rana | 128 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 16,355 | 39K rec. | — | listed | Rana | 121 |
| TH Thailand | — | 12,196 | 101K rec. | — | — | Mrs. | 71 |
| AU Australia | — | 12,137 | 95K rec. | — | 3 | Rana | 160 |
| NG Nigeria | #989 | 6,359 | 12K rec. | — | — | Mrs. | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,096 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 42K | 5.1K | Rani | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 4,917 | 40K rec. | — | 3 | Rana | 104 |
| PH Philippines | — | 4,698 | 13K rec. | — | — | Rana | 49 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi36K73%
- Bangla5.4K11%
- Vietnamese2.6K5%
- 1.3K3%
- English9252%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 35,682 | 73% |
| Bangla | 5,434 | 11% |
| Vietnamese | 2,629 | 5% |
| 1,343 | 3% | |
| English | 925 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Runu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, dative/locative singular of runo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, dative singular of runo
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1924 | 2 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 4 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1947 | 3 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 2 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1951 | 6 |
| 1952 | 1 |
| 1953 | 3 |
| 1954 | 3 |
| 1955 | 8 |
| 1956 | 4 |
| 1957 | 7 |
| 1958 | 4 |
| 1959 | 2 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1963 | 13 |
| 1964 | 15 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 12 |
| 1967 | 22 |
| 1968 | 16 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 25 |
| 1971 | 17 |
| 1972 | 15 |
| 1973 | 19 |
| 1974 | 21 |
| 1975 | 26 |
| 1976 | 27 |
| 1977 | 33 |
| 1978 | 27 |
| 1979 | 38 |
| 1980 | 29 |
| 1981 | 34 |
| 1982 | 41 |
| 1983 | 41 |
| 1984 | 42 |
| 1985 | 61 |
| 1986 | 39 |
| 1987 | 39 |
| 1988 | 22 |
| 1989 | 25 |
| 1990 | 25 |
| 1991 | 49 |
| 1992 | 29 |
| 1993 | 35 |
| 1994 | 35 |
| 1995 | 28 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 34 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 4 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 133 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Runu?
- We estimate roughly 82 thousand people bear Runu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Runu have the most bearers?
- Runu is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rani.
- How common is Runu compared with other names?
- In India, Runu is the 59th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Runu a male or female name?
- Runu 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Runu” — the 59th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.