Lonny
Lonny was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,149 among boys’ names; 6,413 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,610 Americans named Lonny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 53 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lonny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lonny?
#13,149 among boys’ names, 2025
Lonny entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,149 in 2025.
213 babies in 1957, the peak
Lonny peaked in 1957, when 213 boys were given it, #531 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,149 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,457 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,397 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,539 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,295 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,611 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,617 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,294 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,595 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,441 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,712 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,985 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,411 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,465 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,783 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,929 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,433 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,926 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,632 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,939 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,835 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,564 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,415 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,990 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,446 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,681 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,178 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,830 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,090 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,154 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,578 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 44 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 51 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 69 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 93 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 84 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 101 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 93 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 106 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 144 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 133 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 159 | #648 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 158 | #628 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 205 | #533 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 144 | #627 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 209 | #527 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 159 | #607 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 187 | #578 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 191 | #569 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 162 | #608 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 197 | #559 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 155 | #627 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 186 | #573 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 187 | #564 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 213 | #531 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 158 | #605 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 157 | #585 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 156 | #591 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 145 | #602 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 105 | #678 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 134 | #604 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 135 | #584 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 124 | #610 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 151 | #541 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 125 | #610 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 95 | #667 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 84 | #661 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 83 | #684 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 79 | #728 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 75 | #743 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 69 | #749 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 71 | #727 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 69 | #721 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 59 | #811 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,735 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,984 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,306 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,612 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,248 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,791 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,253 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,684 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lonny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lonny has been given almost only to boys: 56 girls in 98 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lonny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lonny, and how old are they?
4,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 6,413 Americans ever recorded as Lonny. The median Lonny alive today is 61 years old; half are between 53 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 4,656 people named Lonny (151 women and girls, 4,505 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,042 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 212 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,040 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 423 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 135 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 62 |
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 Lonny born?
The states with the most babies named Lonny are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 600 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 391 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 295 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Michigan | 234 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 207 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 200 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Iowa | 197 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Washington | 196 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 188 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 124 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Lonny is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lonny is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1920 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Lonny with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lonny?
Lonny is a less common spelling of Lonnie: SSA has recorded 6,413 Lonny and 101,481 Lonnie since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 108,965 babies since 1880, Lonny is the second most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 114 babies (4.4%), 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 Lonny
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 Lonny and names like it
- Compare Lonny and LonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLonny peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lonny since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Lonny.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lonny alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.