Ronnie
Ronnie is ranked 995th among boys in 2024 (226 births). Its best rank was 54th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- #995outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2260.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19476,109 births
- Best rank
- #54in 1946
- Since 1903
- 190,797people given the name
The story in the numbers
182,718 boys have been named Ronnie in the United States since 1903, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 6,109 births — 0.33% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 226 births in 2024, against 6,109 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 28%. It has spent 94 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 8,079 girls have also been given it, 4.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ronnie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 100 | |
| 1920s | 350 | |
| 1930s | 8,709 | |
| 1940s | 42,457 | |
| 1950s | 51,300 | |
| 1960s | 34,717 | |
| 1970s | 18,271 | |
| 1980s | 11,566 | |
| 1990s | 7,049 | |
| 2000s | 4,214 | |
| 2010s | 2,936 | |
| 2020s | 1,039 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Ronnie was the 61st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Ronnie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ronneypeak 1955
- Ronnypeak 1947
- Donniepeak 1952
- Barrypeak 1962
- Gerrypeak 1958
- Garypeak 1952
- Gareypeak 1952
- Dennispeak 1952
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.