In 2025, 16 US girls were named Loni, making it the 7,012th most common girls’ name of the year, up 433 places from #7,445 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 15 girls named Loni in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #570, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 325. For comparison, it was #10,574 in 2015 and #4,554 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Loni in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 12 babies. In all, 3,878 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,747 babies named Loni.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 153 US girls were named Loni; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lona (10,924 babies since 1880), Leonie (2,231 babies since 1880), Lonnie (101,481 babies since 1880) and Lonny (6,413 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Luani are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.