Meaning not yet researched.
Lonny: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #527 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #527 in 1966; #13,153 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lonny in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,153 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #527.
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Lonny: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #527 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 213 (1957).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Lonny, making it the 13,153rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 309 places from #13,462 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 boys named Lonny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #527, reached in 1966. The most boys given the name in a single year was 213, in 1957. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #585 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lonny in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 6,413 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,793 babies named Lonny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 48 US boys were named Lonny; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lonnie (101,481 babies since 1880), Loni (3,878 babies since 1880) and Lonie (2,755 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Loney, Loany and Lonya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Loney (785), Loany (143), Lonya (65), Lohany (10), Looney (6), Loanny (5), Luany (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lonny in the open dataset we use.
Lonny is listed as a nickname for Laurence, Lawrence.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #13,153 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,462 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #13,402 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,544 |
| 2020 | — | — | 5 | #13,302 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,616 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,622 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #9,300 |
| 2013 | — | — | 6 | #11,602 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #13,448 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,719 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,734 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,992 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,415 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,471 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,790 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,935 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,440 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,933 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #11,640 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,946 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,582 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,110 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,841 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,571 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,421 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #4,996 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,452 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,687 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,184 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,927 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,582 |
| 1988 | — | — | 37 | #1,835 |
| 1987 | — | — | 29 | #2,094 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,947 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,155 |
| 1984 | — | — | 34 | #1,707 |
| 1983 | — | — | 38 | #1,579 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,496 | 44 | #1,457 |
| 1981 | — | — | 51 | #1,301 |
| 1980 | — | — | 67 | #1,109 |
| 1979 | — | — | 70 | #1,066 |
| 1978 | — | — | 69 | #1,054 |
| 1977 | — | — | 93 | #878 |
| 1976 | — | — | 84 | #909 |
| 1975 | — | — | 101 | #830 |
| 1974 | — | — | 93 | #836 |
| 1973 | — | — | 106 | #774 |
| 1972 | — | — | 144 | #670 |
| 1971 | — | — | 133 | #718 |
| 1970 | — | — | 159 | #648 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,095 | 158 | #628 |
| 1968 | — | — | 205 | #533 |
| 1967 | — | — | 144 | #627 |
| 1966 | — | — | 209 | #527 |
| 1965 | — | — | 159 | #607 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,822 | 187 | #578 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,185 | 191 | #569 |
| 1962 | — | — | 162 | #608 |
| 1961 | — | — | 197 | #559 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,090 | 155 | #628 |
| 1959 | — | — | 186 | #574 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,617 | 187 | #565 |
| 1957 | — | — | 213 | #532 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,336 | 158 | #606 |
| 1955 | — | — | 157 | #586 |
| 1954 | — | — | 156 | #592 |
| 1953 | — | — | 145 | #603 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,048 | 105 | #679 |
| 1951 | — | — | 134 | #605 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,046 | 135 | #585 |
| 1949 | — | — | 124 | #611 |
| 1948 | — | — | 151 | #542 |
| 1947 | — | — | 125 | #610 |
| 1946 | — | — | 95 | #667 |
| 1945 | — | — | 84 | #661 |
| 1944 | — | — | 83 | #684 |
| 1943 | — | — | 79 | #728 |
| 1942 | — | — | 75 | #743 |
| 1941 | — | — | 69 | #749 |
| 1940 | — | — | 71 | #727 |
| 1939 | — | — | 69 | #721 |
| 1938 | — | — | 59 | #811 |
| 1937 | — | — | 29 | #1,254 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,697 |
| 1935 | — | — | 17 | #1,735 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,984 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,307 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,404 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,613 |
| 1930 | — | — | 13 | #2,248 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,793 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,255 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,055 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,861 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,715 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,424 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,686 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).