Ronnie
Ronnie reached its high-water mark in 1947 at number 61, and has been recorded 191,119 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,064th. About 133,000 Ronnies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ronnie boys named Ronnie
Girls and boys called Ronnie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Ronnie crossed from girls to boys in 1927, and has stayed there for 99 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 98% boys, and in 2025 it was 64%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 110 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 191,119
- Estimated living today
- 133,000
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 61st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,064th
- First recorded
- 1902
- Girls / boys
- 8,193 / 182,926
How old the living Ronnies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 191,119 babies given the name since 1902, about 133,000 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 5,900 of them are children and 63,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 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.
Where the name comes from
Shortening of Ronald.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ronnies
- Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010)American heavy metal singer
- Ronnie O'Sullivan (born 1975)English snooker player
- Ronnie Wood (born 1947)British rock guitarist, member of The Rolling Stones
- Ronnie Coleman (born 1963)American IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Ronnie Peterson (1944–1978)Swedish racing driver
- Ronnie Spector (1943–2022)American singer
- Ronnie Whelan (born 1961)Irish footballer and manager
- Ronnie Van Zant (1948–1977)American singer
People named Ronnie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ronnie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ronnie is most concentrated in Arkansas (2.7×), Kentucky (2.7×), Tennessee (2.5×), North Carolina (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Ronnie peaked:
Ronnie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ronnie | 17,726 | 48th |
| England and Wales girls | Ronnie | 952 | 637th |
| Scotland boys | Ronnie | 481 | 111th |
| Norway boys | Ronnie | 311 | 232nd |
| France boys | Ronnie | 235 | 875th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ronnie | 93 | 149th |
| Ireland boys | Ronnie | 81 | 240th |
| Scotland girls | Ronnie | 17 | 638th |
| France girls | Ronnie | 10 | 6,278th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Ronnie | 3 | 391st |
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.
Ronnie 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 | Ronnie | 4,122 | 4,495 |
| Finland boys | Ronnie | 226 | 282 |
| the Netherlands girls | Ronnie | 22 | 87 |
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
Ronnie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.