diff --git a/modin/pandas/base.py b/modin/pandas/base.py
index 18607ab4b6a..f9bd05ffff1 100644
--- a/modin/pandas/base.py
+++ b/modin/pandas/base.py
@@ -2362,6 +2362,10 @@ def rank(
         ascending: bool = True,
         pct: bool = False,
     ):
+        if axis is None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"No axis named None for object type {type(self).__name__}"
+            )
         axis = self._get_axis_number(axis)
         return self.__constructor__(
             query_compiler=self._query_compiler.rank(
diff --git a/modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_window.py b/modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_window.py
index 44caf587491..ae5d83f1e57 100644
--- a/modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_window.py
+++ b/modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_window.py
@@ -728,6 +728,14 @@ def test_std_var_rank(axis, skipna, method):
     )
 
 
+def test_rank_except():
+    eval_general(
+        *create_test_dfs(test_data["float_nan_data"]),
+        lambda df: df.rank(axis=None),
+        raising_exceptions=ValueError("No axis named None for object type DataFrame"),
+    )
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("axis", ["rows", "columns"])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("ddof", int_arg_values, ids=arg_keys("ddof", int_arg_keys))
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("method", ["std", "var"])