Meaning not yet researched.
Ronan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,406 in 2025. Its best rank was #247 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 98% of babies named Ronan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#247 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ronan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,406 boys in 2025. Peak: #247 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,406 (2025).
In 2025, 1,406 US boys were named Ronan, making it the 247th most common boys’ name of the year, up 10 places from #257 in 2024. That is 32 more than the 1,374 boys named Ronan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #247, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,406. For comparison, it was #335 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ronan in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 10 babies. In all, 20,938 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,210 babies named Ronan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,592 US boys were named Ronan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,406. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,215 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ronan ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #99 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ronin (10,494 babies since 1880) and Ronen (1,269 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Renan, Ronon and Roanin 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: Renan (407), Ronon (129), Roanin (86), Rohnan (82), Ronyn (82), Roanan (38), Ronnan (6).
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 Ronan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 6 | #99 | — |
| Alaska | 8 | #107 | #127 |
| Oregon | 34 | #117 | #226 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #122 | #319 |
| New Hampshire | 12 | #127 | #185 |
| Idaho | 20 | #140 | #235 |
| Massachusetts | 47 | #152 | #144 |
| Connecticut | 23 | #156 | #187 |
| Virginia | 53 | #173 | #283 |
| Utah | 32 | #176 | #246 |
| Colorado | 37 | #187 | #245 |
| Maine | 7 | #199 | #177 |
| Ohio | 64 | #203 | #254 |
| Washington | 41 | #203 | #218 |
| New York | 91 | #215 | #378 |
| Indiana | 39 | #217 | #332 |
| Michigan | 45 | #223 | #264 |
| Illinois | 53 | #225 | #325 |
| Nevada | 14 | #227 | #329 |
| Missouri | 32 | #228 | #367 |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | #228 | #261 |
| Wisconsin | 27 | #230 | #310 |
| California | 154 | #243 | #346 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #250 | #284 |
| Kansas | 15 | #260 | #352 |
| New Jersey | 36 | #261 | #431 |
| Maryland | 21 | #265 | #325 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #265 | — |
| Minnesota | 23 | #273 | #382 |
| Arizona | 29 | #281 | #305 |
| Montana | 5 | #281 | #283 |
| Florida | 72 | #282 | #338 |
| Iowa | 14 | #288 | #310 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #290 | #322 |
| Kentucky | 19 | #293 | #349 |
| Tennessee | 30 | #297 | #359 |
| North Carolina | 35 | #337 | #389 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #349 | #439 |
| Alabama | 16 | #355 | #686 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #417 | — |
| Georgia | 27 | #424 | #615 |
| Texas | 77 | #437 | #528 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #446 | #493 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #499 | #381 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #724 | #740 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,677 | 1,406 | #247 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,880 | 1,374 | #257 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,973 | 1,149 | #290 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,773 | 1,299 | #266 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,369 | 1,258 | #274 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,042 | 1,263 | #270 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,142 | 1,346 | #268 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,417 | 1,192 | #294 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,040 | 1,194 | #296 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,948 | 1,111 | #315 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,351 | 1,029 | #335 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,757 | 865 | #366 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,308 | 668 | #434 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,682 | 596 | #457 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,539 | 584 | #457 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,269 | 507 | #508 |
| 2009 | — | — | 470 | #565 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,432 | 535 | #509 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,913 | 466 | #552 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,433 | 411 | #599 |
| 2005 | — | — | 372 | #607 |
| 2004 | — | — | 322 | #643 |
| 2003 | — | — | 232 | #763 |
| 2002 | — | — | 203 | #824 |
| 2001 | — | — | 187 | #861 |
| 2000 | — | — | 145 | #1,013 |
| 1999 | — | — | 123 | #1,094 |
| 1998 | — | — | 60 | #1,715 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,193 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,663 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #4,011 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,053 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,490 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,287 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #5,027 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #7,023 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,476 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,639 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,884 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,768 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,648 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,176 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,111 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,644 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,067 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,798 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,474 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,735 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,354 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,894 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,626 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,320 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,052 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,494 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,959 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,272 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,575 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,606 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,787 |
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).