Loney
Loney was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 785 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,668, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1915, the peak
Loney peaked in 1915, when 33 babies were given it (20 boys, #1,582 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,668 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #5,000 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,568 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,827 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,532 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,499 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 6 | #3,810 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,524 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 9 | #3,014 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,896 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,470 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,104 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,324 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,042 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,202 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,191 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,591 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,069 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 8 | #2,674 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 8 | #2,769 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,834 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 10 | #2,468 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 9 | #2,583 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,741 | |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,050 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,331 | 9 | #2,574 |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,829 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 11 | #2,249 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,950 | |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,769 | 8 | #2,998 |
| 1930 | under 5 | 15 | #2,026 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 14 | #2,152 | |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,618 | 14 | #2,221 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,183 | 17 | #1,999 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,297 | 16 | #2,038 |
| 1925 | under 5 | 8 | #3,290 | |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,250 | 12 | #2,568 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,254 | 12 | #2,540 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,268 | 11 | #2,733 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,557 | 15 | #2,221 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,240 | 11 | #2,696 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,119 | 20 | #1,733 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,693 | 17 | #1,956 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,987 | 17 | #1,869 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,319 | 6 | #3,723 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,320 | 20 | #1,582 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,541 | 7 | #2,807 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,970 | 12 | #1,633 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,674 | 7 | #2,161 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,879 | 7 | #1,478 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,864 | 5 | #1,747 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,108 | 6 | #1,388 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,241 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,651 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,822 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,429 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,059 | 8 | #884 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,930 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,826 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,844 | 6 | #1,253 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,146 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 6 | #1,072 | |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,502 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 5 | #1,185 | |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,033 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,570 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,213 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 6 | #917 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 5 | #983 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Loney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 785 Americans recorded as Loney, 36% are girls and 64% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loney, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Loney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 58 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 269 people named Loney (52 women and girls, 217 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Loney?
Loney is a less common spelling of Lonnie: SSA has recorded 785 Loney and 101,481 Lonnie since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 108,965 babies since 1880, Loney is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 114 babies recorded by SSA was a Loney (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Loney
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Loney and names like it
- Compare Loney and LonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLoney peaked in 1915.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loney since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Loney.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Loney alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.