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Ronda vs Ronny

American parents have registered 34,674 Rondas since 1880, against 15,045 Ronnys. But in 2025 it was Ronny that was commoner, 34 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ronda against Ronny, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ronda Ronny

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 108 years in which either name was published, Ronny for 60 years and Ronda for 48 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ronda Ronny
Total US births 34,67415,045
Most in one year 1,922438
Babies in 2025 under 534
Estimated living today 30,00011,000
Median age today 6059
Peak year 19651947
Best rank 181st girls332nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,379th
First recorded 19151927
Girls / boys 34,315 / 359478 / 14,567

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ronda Ronny
England and Wales 3761

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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