Rani

Girls' name · Late 20th-century · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US: ~2,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #4,460 among girls
Births in 2025: 31 2,126 since 1880
Typical age: 31 years, median

Rani popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1946–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1979: 50 births recorded as Rani. 1946 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. In 2025 it ranked #4,460 with 31 births.

Over ten years the count has risen 72%. Year on year the rank improved by 433.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Rani?

About 2,100 people named Rani are alive in the United States today. That is out of 2,126 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 1,800 women and 210 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Rani?

Half of living Ranis are older than 31, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 2000s. By the site’s era rules that makes Rani a late 20th-century name.

Your Rani

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Rani a boy's or a girl's name?

Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

The name leans girls, but 13.6% of births in the last decade were boys. Across the whole record, 89.9% of births under the name were girls.

Rani in England and Wales

ONS recorded 21 births named Rani in 2025, ranking it #1,454. That is 75% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Rani comes from

From Sanskrit राज्ञी (“a queen, princess, the wife of a king”), through Hindi रानी.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Rani

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Rani Mukerji	Indian actress	1978	86
Rani Khedira	Tunisian association football player	1994	33
Rani Padmini	Indian queen	—–1303	26
Rani Durgavati	Queen regent of Gondwana	1524–1564	25
Rani Rampal	Indian field hockey player	1994	22
Rani Hamid	Bangladeshi female chess player	1944	18
Rani Chatterjee	Indian actress	1984	18
Rani Karnaa	Indian classical dancer	1939–2018	13