Lonie
Lonie was last recorded in 1990, when 5 babies were given it; 2,755 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lonie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lonie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,613, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1919, the peak
Lonie peaked in 1919, when 76 babies were given it (44 girls, #1,113 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,955 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,613 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,982 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,723 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,962 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,369 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,126 | 5 | #6,864 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,390 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,127 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #6,130 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,969 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,686 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,447 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,713 | |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,582 | 11 | #2,996 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,092 | 9 | #3,222 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 7 | #3,548 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,241 | 7 | #3,435 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,703 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,573 | 8 | #3,139 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,784 | 7 | #3,477 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,112 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,406 | |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,906 | 12 | #2,486 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,065 | 8 | #3,232 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,355 | 11 | #2,611 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,172 | 9 | #2,945 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,745 | 9 | #2,935 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 11 | #2,579 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,999 | 14 | #2,189 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,238 | 7 | #3,325 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,855 | 8 | #3,056 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,125 | 6 | #3,583 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,215 | 6 | #3,576 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,572 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,298 | 12 | #2,290 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,898 | 6 | #3,532 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 10 | #2,594 | |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,549 | 7 | #3,070 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,309 | 9 | #2,507 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,265 | 7 | #3,014 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,642 | 12 | #2,240 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,611 | 11 | #2,339 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,798 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,502 | 15 | #1,859 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,366 | 9 | #2,554 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,672 | 13 | #2,052 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,052 | 16 | #1,800 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,614 | 10 | #2,390 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,965 | 11 | #2,344 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,846 | 12 | #2,201 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,615 | 12 | #2,173 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,089 | 18 | #1,757 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,161 | 8 | #2,998 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,845 | 20 | #1,677 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,256 | 15 | #2,059 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,699 | 25 | #1,500 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,984 | 23 | #1,624 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,752 | 24 | #1,543 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,486 | 18 | #1,909 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,392 | 27 | #1,474 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,417 | 15 | #2,186 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,393 | 15 | #2,194 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,423 | 33 | #1,289 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,298 | 26 | #1,485 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,113 | 32 | #1,256 |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,224 | 19 | #1,800 |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,105 | 17 | #1,870 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,180 | 16 | #1,903 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,131 | 18 | #1,693 |
| 1914 | 44 | #883 | 20 | #1,374 |
| 1913 | 30 | #993 | 12 | #1,634 |
| 1912 | 27 | #992 | 19 | #1,079 |
| 1911 | 23 | #914 | 16 | #848 |
| 1910 | 30 | #788 | 10 | #1,086 |
| 1909 | 17 | #1,006 | 10 | #991 |
| 1908 | 26 | #761 | 7 | #1,171 |
| 1907 | 22 | #808 | 9 | #968 |
| 1906 | 19 | #862 | 6 | #1,193 |
| 1905 | 22 | #792 | 7 | #1,043 |
| 1904 | 30 | #636 | 11 | #746 |
| 1903 | 21 | #747 | 7 | #973 |
| 1902 | 22 | #744 | 8 | #894 |
| 1901 | 28 | #595 | 6 | #1,010 |
| 1900 | 37 | #574 | 20 | #546 |
| 1899 | 18 | #778 | 5 | #1,147 |
| 1898 | 34 | #550 | 11 | #688 |
| 1897 | 24 | #636 | 9 | #763 |
| 1896 | 29 | #573 | 10 | #758 |
| 1895 | 25 | #616 | 12 | #629 |
| 1894 | 20 | #674 | 12 | #614 |
| 1893 | 29 | #518 | 9 | #740 |
| 1892 | 24 | #573 | 12 | #622 |
| 1891 | 15 | #712 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 26 | #515 | 10 | #649 |
| 1889 | 15 | #674 | 14 | #514 |
| 1888 | 29 | #463 | 6 | #999 |
| 1887 | 22 | #481 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 17 | #548 | 10 | #626 |
| 1885 | 14 | #595 | 6 | #890 |
| 1884 | 7 | #895 | 8 | #733 |
| 1883 | 14 | #532 | 5 | #984 |
| 1882 | under 5 | 9 | #681 | |
| 1881 | 11 | #524 | 6 | #831 |
| 1880 | under 5 | 7 | #782 |
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 Lonie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,755 Americans recorded as Lonie, 61% are girls and 39% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lonie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lonie, and how old are they?
An estimated 475 Americans named Lonie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 59 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 678 people named Lonie (355 women and girls, 323 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 600 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,784 babies since 1880, Lonie is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 28 babies recorded by SSA was a Lonie (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 Lonie
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 Lonie and names like it
- Compare Lonie and LonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLonie peaked in 1919.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lonie since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Lonie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lonie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.