First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Ruler
- Spanish: Frog
- Hebrew: Pure, clean
First name variations: Raine, Rein, Reign, Rayne, Rane, Raina, Ray, Rain, Raniyah, Ranna, Ranya, Raina, Rane, Rania, Renana, Renait, Renatia, Renatya, Renina, Rinatia, Rinatya, Rayna Last name origins & meanings:
- Indian (Gujarat, Bombay city, and Rajasthan): Hindu and Parsi
name meaning ‘king’ in modern Indian languages. Rana does not
have a Sanskrit equivalent; it is probably a back-formation from
rạ̄nī ‘queen’ (Sanskrit rājñī, based on
the analogy that nouns ending in -ī and denoting females
usually have masculine counterparts ending in -ā). The name
Rana was used as a title by some Rajput kings. As a surname, it is now
found among Rajputs as well as several other communities. It is
cognate with the name Rane, which occurs in Maharashtra and
Goa.
- Spanish and Italian: from rana ‘frog’, hence a
nickname, perhaps for someone with bulging eyes.
- Galician
(Raña): habitational name from a place so called in the
province of A Coruña.
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