Entry № 8518 · Arabic origin

Rana Rana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Beautiful gaze (Rana el Kaliouby AI ethics)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "beautiful gaze (rana el kaliouby ai ethics)".

Rana is from the Arabic Ranā (رنا — to gaze, to look at). Rana is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Arab + Levantine + Maghrebi naming heritage.

Beautiful gaze (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

رنا
Transliteration
Ranā
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rana stands.

Rana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ranas before her.

Real people
Rana el Kaliouby
Egyptian-American AI emotional intelligence + Affectiva founder.
born 1978
In fiction
Rana
Arabic beautiful gaze.

Names connected to Rana.

The number behind Rana.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rana reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.