Ragna

Where Ragna comes from

Ragna hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1845
    Ragna Nielsen born
    Norwegian educator
  2. 1885
    Debut at its peak, #745
    #745 among girls with 9 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1983
    Ragna Ingólfsdóttir born
    badminton player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ragna Nielsen · Norwegian educator, 1845–1924
  • Ragna Ingólfsdóttir · badminton player, born 1983
  • Ragna Árnadóttir · Icelandic politician, born 1966
  • Ragna Wettergreen · Norwegian actress, 1864–1958
  • Ragna Nikolasdatter · Norwegian queen, 1101–1161

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.