Ranka

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ranka is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
136 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ranka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ranka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—374Ranka136
HR Croatia—1.1K—1
US United States—120—108
SI Slovenia—106——
XK Kosovo—88——

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SURS — resident population given names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ranka is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Serbian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Languages: Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Ранка

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Raṅka, Rāṅkā

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ranka is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, pole (delimbed but not debarked stem of a thin tree that is not cut to a specified length)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In izh, pole (stem of a thin tree cut to ca. 3-4 metres)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lithuanian, hand; arm

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (lielciems) Gulbenes novadā 40 km no Gulbenes, izveidojusies bijušās muižas "Lindenberg" teritorijā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Ogres labā krasta pieteka Ogres novada Suntažu un Ogresgala pagastā, garums - 21 km, kritums - 27 m

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Rumbiņa, Daugavas pieteka

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Ranka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.1K#508
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021922—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020119#49,660
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025106#711
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—106#1,455
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023106#694
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024105#708
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022105#674
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020102#665
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021101#683
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019101#657
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201499#628

Reference works 2

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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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, “Ranka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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