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Ronan vs Roney

American parents have registered 20,938 Ronans since 1880, against 888 Roneys. Ronan is still ahead, with 1,428 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ronan against Roney, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ronan Roney

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 104 years in which either name was published, Roney for 60 years and Ronan for 44 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Ronan Roney
Total US births 20,938888
Most in one year 1,42828
Babies in 2025 1,428under 5
Estimated living today 21,000590
Median age today 757
Peak year 20251950
Best rank 247th boys1,364th boys
Rank in 2025 247thunranked
First recorded 19591893
Girls / boys 259 / 20,6795 / 883

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Roneys alive today are over 57; half the Ronans are over 7. That is 50 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ronan and Roney.