Rance
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹæns/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rance is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 56K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 81K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Rance is read(measured from records)
Rance is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English76%
A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
French; a kind of Belgian marble
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- Spanish7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rance in Spanish.
- French7.5%
rancid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rance counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Rance | 40 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 2.4K | Rance | 142 |
| US United States | 957 | 1 in 348K | 2.1K | Rance | 271 |
| FR France | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 123K | 84 | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Rance | 78 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Rance | 35 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charlie Ranceb. 1889GBEnglish footballer (1889-1966)
- Hubert Ranceb. 1898GBBritish Army general (1898-1974)
- Didier Ranceb. 1947FRFrench writer
- Terry Ranceb. 1953GBmusician
- B. D. Ranceb. 1962NZNew Zealand botanist
- Bastien Ranceb. 1980FRresearcher
- Seth Ranceb. 1987NZNew Zealand cricketer
- Alex Ranceb. 1989AUAustralian rules footballer
- Dean Ranceb. 1991GBBritish footballer (born 1991)
- Gary RanceAUresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #7,415 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 57 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 56 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 55 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 53 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 53 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 53 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 52 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 48 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rance mean, and where does it come from?
- A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rance have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Rance in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rance.
- How do you pronounce Rance?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹæns/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Rance?
- In the United States, the national register counted 957 people named Rance in 2010, about 1 in 348 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ranceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Rance”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.