Entry № 8528 · Arabic origin

Rania Rania — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-nyah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Queen, gazing, attractive"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "queen, gazing, attractive".

Rania (رانيا) is an Arabic name with multiple readings.

Queen Rania of Jordan, born in Kuwait in 1970 and married to King Abdullah II of Jordan in 1993, is the most prominent contemporary Rania. The name is popular across the Arab world and is rising in Western records.

Queen. The name of a queen.

The name in its native script.

رانيا
Transliteration
Rāniyā
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑː.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rania stands.

Rania 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.

Ranias before her.

Real people
Queen Rania of Jordan
Queen consort of Jordan, married to King Abdullah II.
born 1970
In fiction

Names connected to Rania.

The number behind Rania.

7

The Seeker

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