Given name & surname · also Swedish
Rauni
“rowan”
Rauni is a feminine given name from Swedish, ultimately from Old Norse. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Rauni comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Rauni developed from Ragnhild.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rauni through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1918. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rauni’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Rauni developed from the Swedish form Ragnhild. In Finnish usage, Rauni has a related form in RAUNO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rauni
- Rauni MollbergFinnish film director (1929-2007)
- Rauni-Leena Luukanen-KildeFinnish ufologist, parapsychologist and author (1939–2015)
- Rauni Magga LukkariSámi poet and translatorborn 1943
- Rauni LuomaFinnish actress (1911-1996)
- Rauni IkäheimoFinnish actress (1924–1997)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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