Ranyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAN-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Ranyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “gazing, looking”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Ranyah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ranya, itself a variant spelling of Rania
“gazing, looking”
A spelling of Rania, from an Arabic verb meaning to gaze steadily at something.
Meaning borrowed from Ranya.
Is Ranyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Ranyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ranyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Ranyah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
2025 had more girls named Ranyah than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Ranyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ranyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
Names like Ranyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sariyah, Aaliyah, Saanvi, Raya, Aya, Safa, Saniyah, Adhara, Prisha, Zainab, Kaliyah, Raha
Names related to Ranyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ranyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ranyah, updated 20 October 2026.