In 2025, 34 US boys were named Ronny, making it the 3,434th most common boys’ name of the year, down 884 places from #2,550 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 53 boys named Ronny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #322, reached in 1943. The most boys given the name in a single year was 430, in 1947. For comparison, it was #2,594 in 2015 and #398 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ronny in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 5 babies. In all, 15,045 US babies have been given the name, 3.2% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,283 babies named Ronny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 467 US boys were named Ronny; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 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 Rony (1,996 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Roney, Ronya and Roniya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ronald.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.