Meaning not yet researched.
Ron: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #166 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #166 in 1959; #4,361 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ron in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,361 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #166.
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Ron: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #166 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 1,888 (1960).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Ron, making it the 4,361st most common boys’ name of the year, down 688 places from #3,673 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 31 boys named Ron in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #166, reached in 1959. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,888, in 1960. For comparison, it was #3,017 in 2015 and #360 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ron in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 6 babies. In all, 36,432 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 13,141 babies named Ron.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 372 US boys were named Ron; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ronald (1,086,091 babies since 1880), Ronnie (191,119 babies since 1880), Roni (5,529 babies since 1880) and Ren (3,634 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rune, Ronn and Ronel are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ronnie and Ronny.
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: Rune (861), Ronn (655), Ronel (558), Rohn (419), Rohin (393), Rohen (393), Roann (238), Ronne (135), Ruan (83), Rone (72), Roane (63), Rohun (37), and more.
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 24 | #4,361 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,673 |
| 2023 | — | — | 37 | #3,275 |
| 2022 | — | — | 33 | #3,522 |
| 2021 | — | — | 35 | #3,347 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,477 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,554 |
| 2018 | — | — | 53 | #2,467 |
| 2017 | — | — | 47 | #2,662 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,614 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #3,017 |
| 2014 | — | — | 62 | #2,199 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,754 |
| 2012 | — | — | 59 | #2,231 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,398 |
| 2010 | — | — | 58 | #2,254 |
| 2009 | — | — | 63 | #2,161 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,574 |
| 2007 | — | — | 69 | #2,031 |
| 2006 | — | — | 92 | #1,592 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,631 |
| 2004 | — | — | 74 | #1,726 |
| 2003 | — | — | 86 | #1,511 |
| 2002 | — | — | 79 | #1,568 |
| 2001 | — | — | 88 | #1,424 |
| 2000 | — | — | 95 | #1,351 |
| 1999 | — | — | 106 | #1,209 |
| 1998 | — | — | 103 | #1,202 |
| 1997 | — | — | 117 | #1,086 |
| 1996 | — | — | 123 | #1,016 |
| 1995 | — | — | 127 | #985 |
| 1994 | — | — | 119 | #1,020 |
| 1993 | — | — | 141 | #907 |
| 1992 | — | — | 137 | #905 |
| 1991 | — | — | 155 | #832 |
| 1990 | — | — | 191 | #739 |
| 1989 | — | — | 185 | #728 |
| 1988 | — | — | 148 | #776 |
| 1987 | — | — | 168 | #707 |
| 1986 | — | — | 186 | #658 |
| 1985 | — | — | 178 | #660 |
| 1984 | — | — | 179 | #646 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,595 | 180 | #640 |
| 1982 | — | — | 241 | #557 |
| 1981 | — | — | 241 | #543 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,843 | 295 | #494 |
| 1979 | — | — | 281 | #497 |
| 1978 | — | — | 270 | #492 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,205 | 309 | #458 |
| 1976 | — | — | 346 | #417 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,760 | 320 | #446 |
| 1974 | — | — | 377 | #399 |
| 1973 | — | — | 410 | #380 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,284 | 499 | #345 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,181 | 666 | #298 |
| 1970 | — | — | 785 | #270 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,852 | 1,003 | #230 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,836 | 819 | #252 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,340 | 841 | #241 |
| 1966 | — | — | 940 | #230 |
| 1965 | — | — | 1,143 | #213 |
| 1964 | — | — | 1,334 | #209 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,408 | 1,592 | #185 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,361 | 1,709 | #178 |
| 1961 | — | — | 1,840 | #170 |
| 1960 | — | — | 1,888 | #170 |
| 1959 | — | — | 1,875 | #166 |
| 1958 | — | — | 1,697 | #176 |
| 1957 | — | — | 1,282 | #208 |
| 1956 | — | — | 763 | #263 |
| 1955 | — | — | 501 | #331 |
| 1954 | — | — | 405 | #358 |
| 1953 | — | — | 349 | #368 |
| 1952 | — | — | 277 | #415 |
| 1951 | — | — | 287 | #402 |
| 1950 | — | — | 349 | #360 |
| 1949 | — | — | 526 | #294 |
| 1948 | — | — | 770 | #232 |
| 1947 | — | — | 921 | #210 |
| 1946 | — | — | 829 | #206 |
| 1945 | — | — | 545 | #244 |
| 1944 | — | — | 523 | #256 |
| 1943 | — | — | 522 | #265 |
| 1942 | — | — | 425 | #293 |
| 1941 | — | — | 293 | #336 |
| 1940 | — | — | 214 | #389 |
| 1939 | — | — | 198 | #406 |
| 1938 | — | — | 143 | #485 |
| 1937 | — | — | 137 | #488 |
| 1936 | — | — | 93 | #604 |
| 1935 | — | — | 83 | #657 |
| 1934 | — | — | 65 | #769 |
| 1933 | — | — | 38 | #1,072 |
| 1932 | — | — | 25 | #1,417 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,986 |
| 1930 | — | — | 13 | #2,274 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,204 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,717 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,872 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,113 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,848 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,087 |
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).