Comments for RANA:

When considering using this name, it should be noted that "rana" means "frog" in many languages such as Spanish and Latin.

-- likeastar  10/28/2005

In Bulgarian "rana" (the stress is on the 1st "a") is a noun, which means "wound", "sore" (the root is "ran"). "Rana" is not used as a name in Bulgaria.

-- iva_toneva  5/12/2006

Hi, real meaning of the name "Rana" is:
1- a thing that an eye looks or stares at it for its beauty.
2- the queen of a generations of kings.

-- aligator  9/13/2006

Rana is a girl name in Iran meaning mainly 'elegant' as well as 'of elegant stature'.
Although originally this name comes from Arabic meaning selfcentered and selfish, in Persian the use of the name has been twisted to mention a tall, elegant and stylish girl.
This name has a common poetry usage as well.

-- citronvert  12/18/2006

One book on Norse mythology I have states Rana, alternate spelling Rania, was a goddess of the storm.

-- Lien-Hua  9/21/2007

This is a stupid name, considering it means "frog" in Spanish. It's not going to work outside of an Arab community.

-- bananarama  7/14/2008

Horrible. The name doesn't look good in Arabic and the meaning in Russian (Рана) is 'wound'. It has the same meaning in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak (along with many other meanings, none particularly positive) and Polish. The Slovenian for 'wound' is 'rane', Romanian is 'rană' and Czech is 'rána'. It also means 'frog' in Catalan, Spanish and Italian.

My sister's husband was thinking about naming their daughter this, but the response from the people we asked (mainly eastern European and Arab, with some western European and British) was massively negative. I am half Arab, half eastern European myself and hate the name. Some extreme forward thinking Arab expat women also find issue with the 'object' meaning. Personally this is one of my least favourite Arabic names ever.

-- Anonymous User  11/13/2009

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