Rana

At the 2020 census, 9,881 Americans bore the surname Rana — 3,524th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,200.

By the numbers

People: 9,881
Rank: 3,524th
How common: 1 in 30,200
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Various origins of surname:.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rana described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 88.9%
White, not Hispanic 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rana

Ashutosh Rana (born 1967)Indian film actor
Iván Raña (born 1979)Spanish triathlete
Navneet Kaur Rana (born 1986)Indian actress and Politician
Arzu Rana Deuba (born 1962)Nepali politician
Beatrice Rana (born 1993)Italian pianist

People named Rana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rana

Also a first name

Rana has been given to 4,732 American babies as a first name since 1942, peaking in 1971. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.