About the name Rance
Rance belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Rance first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #973 in 1890, and in 2024 10 babies received the name — 2,992 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.