Loni
Loni was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,010 among girls’ names; 3,878 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,620 Americans named Loni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 37 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loni?
#7,010 among girls’ names, 2025
Loni rose from #10,569 in 2015 to #7,010 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 10.0 per million.
332 babies in 1980, the peak
Loni peaked in 1980, when 332 babies were given it (325 girls, #570 among girls’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,010 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,441 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,818 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,874 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,859 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,282 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,310 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,602 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,425 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,539 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,569 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,610 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,699 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,467 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,976 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,563 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,150 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,781 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,820 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,520 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,449 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,623 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,202 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,796 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,474 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,108 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,029 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,569 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,579 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,330 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,664 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,151 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,099 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,166 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,804 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,914 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 109 | #1,386 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,362 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 96 | #1,399 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,320 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 115 | #1,209 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 162 | #920 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 186 | #826 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 262 | #675 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 273 | #650 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 325 | #570 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 144 | #990 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,541 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,846 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,471 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,048 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,183 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,350 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,699 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,290 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,886 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,867 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 44 | #1,708 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,652 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,516 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,240 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,604 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,747 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,648 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,086 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,650 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,307 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,878 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,552 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,582 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,778 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,686 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,878 Americans recorded as Loni, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Loni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loni, and how old are they?
3,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 3,878 Americans ever recorded as Loni. The median Loni alive today is 44 years old; half are between 37 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 3,828 people named Loni (3,616 women and girls, 212 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,607 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 496 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 887 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,780 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 262 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 180 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Loni born?
The states with the most babies named Loni are California, Texas and New York, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 448 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 153 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 108 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 100 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 87 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 75 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 67 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 65 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 54 | not ranked | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Loni with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,894 babies since 1880, Loni is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 53 babies (30%), again the second most given.
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 Loni
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 Loni and names like it
- Compare Loni and LonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLoni peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loni since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Loni.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Loni alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.