Rana 1

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Female Female Name
Multiple variants of this name exist:
For the Sami female name see Rana f
For the Indian male name see Rana m

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Origin and Meaning

1) Latin spelling of Arabic رنا (rana) = 'to gaze' [1]

2) Latin spelling of Arabic رعناء (ra'naa) = 'beautiful', 'gorgeous', 'tall and slender woman' [2]

3) Arabic name meaning 'soft' [3]

Related Names

Rana
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Arabic

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rana
Genitive: Ranas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rana
Genitive: Ranan
Partitive: Ranaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rana
Genitive: Ranas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rana
Genitive: Ranas

Further Information

Rana 1 is a name used among immigrants from Arabic-speaking countries, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
1398 1476 1355 1412 43 64
Denmark Denmark[5]
323
n.a.
307
n.a.
16
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
157
n.a.
132
n.a.
25
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 116
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
2 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
237
n.a.
207
n.a.
30
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Rana.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no