Rana
One of the rarer names in Poland: only around 130 people carry it, so most Poles have never met one. It lands on both women and men, though about a quarter of bearers are men.
Rana Pronunciation
Rana is pronounced RAH-nah (/ˈrana/).
What Rana means
Where Rana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rana begins in Latin as an ordinary word for frog. Zoologists kept it: Rana is the genus of true frogs, named in the eighteenth century and still on the books today.
The given name follows another line entirely. In Arabic, رنا describes a long, admiring look at something lovely, and the name settled into the sense of "beautiful, eye-catching." The Latin frog and the Arabic gaze share four letters and little else.
Rana has no diminutives and no variant spellings. It stays short and whole.
On a Polish class register, Rana sits between longer names like Aleksandra and Magdalena, quick to read and quick to say. A teacher calling the roll reaches it fast. The name asks for no nickname, so children rarely shorten it. Whatever a bearer makes of it, the word underneath means beautiful, eye-catching.
How many people are named Rana
1 in 232411 women in Poland is named Rana. 131 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2907 among female names.
Rana as a middle name
Rana is a first name for 131 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1500th, between Phoebe (23) and Salome (23).
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#1498 Natali23
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#1499 Phoebe23
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#1500 Rana23
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#1501 Salome23
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#1502 Stasia23