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Rangda Rangda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAHNG-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Balinese demon queen"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Balinese)

A name that means "balinese demon queen".

Rangda is from the Balinese-Indonesian Rangda — widow — referring to the Balinese demon queen of Hindu-Buddhist mythology.

Balinese demon queen.

The name in its native script.

Rangda
Transliteration
Rangda
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑːŋ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rangda stands.

Rangda 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.

Rangdas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rangda (Calon Arang)
Balinese demon queen.

Names connected to Rangda.

The number behind Rangda.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rangda reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.