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Ronin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 600 in 2025. Its best rank was #390 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #390 in 2020; #504 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Ronin in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#504 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #390.
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Ronin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 600 boys in 2025. Peak: #390 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 790 (2020).
In 2025, 600 US boys were named Ronin, making it the 504th most common boys’ name of the year, down 9 places from #495 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 624 boys named Ronin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #390, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 790. For comparison, it was #486 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ronin in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 10 babies. In all, 10,494 US babies have been given the name, 2.1% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,771 babies named Ronin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,582 US boys were named Ronin; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 790. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,847 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ronin ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #138 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ronan (20,938 babies since 1880) and Ronen (1,269 babies since 1880).
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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 Ronin 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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 7 | #138 | — |
| Hawaii | 5 | #248 | — |
| Nebraska | 9 | #287 | — |
| Idaho | 9 | #297 | #286 |
| Utah | 17 | #299 | #470 |
| Missouri | 22 | #313 | #419 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #320 | #439 |
| Oregon | 13 | #323 | #317 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #350 | — |
| Colorado | 18 | #360 | #359 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #364 | — |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #372 | #691 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #382 | #547 |
| Nevada | 8 | #385 | #356 |
| Michigan | 22 | #405 | #387 |
| Indiana | 18 | #407 | #476 |
| Arizona | 19 | #409 | #321 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #421 | #453 |
| Ohio | 26 | #423 | #679 |
| Texas | 72 | #467 | #715 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #509 | #488 |
| California | 60 | #517 | #347 |
| Virginia | 15 | #520 | #616 |
| Washington | 14 | #526 | #341 |
| Alabama | 8 | #612 | #687 |
| Iowa | 5 | #648 | #411 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #651 | #494 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #655 | #612 |
| Florida | 24 | #678 | #490 |
| New York | 19 | #761 | #757 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #769 | #478 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #772 | #439 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #789 | #461 |
| Illinois | 11 | #791 | #702 |
| Georgia | 9 | #973 | #984 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,775 | 600 | #504 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,339 | 624 | #495 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,198 | 641 | #474 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,934 | 758 | #422 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,708 | 710 | #438 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,459 | 790 | #390 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,370 | 650 | #461 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,047 | 656 | #455 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,768 | 563 | #515 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,974 | 590 | #508 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,781 | 606 | #486 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,758 | 497 | #556 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,752 | 291 | #773 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,998 | 298 | #768 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,130 | 274 | #803 |
| 2010 | — | — | 249 | #853 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,315 | 273 | #815 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,065 | 274 | #802 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,916 | 200 | #984 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,436 | 183 | #1,006 |
| 2005 | — | — | 115 | #1,321 |
| 2004 | — | — | 107 | #1,364 |
| 2003 | — | — | 73 | #1,697 |
| 2002 | — | — | 59 | #1,911 |
| 2001 | — | — | 55 | #1,975 |
| 2000 | — | — | 61 | #1,797 |
| 1999 | — | — | 65 | #1,651 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,201 |
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).