Ron
The boy's name Ron has been in the national records since 1919, with 36,432 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 27,000 Rons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ron boys named Ron
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 36,432
- Estimated living today
- 27,000
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 170th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,249th
- First recorded
- 1919
- Girls / boys
- 70 / 36,362
How old the living Rons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 36,432 babies given the name since 1919, about 27,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 790 of them are children and 9,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Rons
- Ron Paul (born 1935)American politician
- Ron Howard (born 1954)American film director, producer, and actor
- Ron DeSantis (born 1978)American politician
- Ron Perlman (born 1950)American actor
- Ron Jeremy (born 1953)American pornographic actor
- Ron Vlaar (born 1985)Dutch association football player
- Ron Atkinson (born 1939)English footballer, manager and commentator
- Ron Rivest (born 1947)American cryptographer
People named Ron with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ron is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ron is most concentrated in Oregon (3.5×), Washington (3.3×), Idaho (2.5×), Montana (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Ron peaked:
Ron elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Ron | 472 | 266th |
| France boys | Ron | 285 | 2,103rd |
| England and Wales boys | Ron | 172 | 1,534th |
| Belgium boys | Ron | 22 | 908th |
| Ireland boys | Ron | 4 | 604th |
| Poland boys | Ron | 4 birth registrations | 510th |
| Scotland boys | Ron | 3 | 296th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ron: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ron | 436 | 0.035% | 199th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ron | 33 | 0.008% | 426th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ron | 3 | 0.005% | 188th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Ron is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.05% of children were given it – 46 of them.
Ron: rank by region
In 2016, Ron was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ron | 865 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ron among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Ron | 1,965 | 2,434 |
| Finland boys | Ron | 199 | 225 |
| the Netherlands girls | Ron | — | 93 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ron against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.