Ronan
Ronan was given to 1,406 boys in 2025, #247 among boys’ names; 20,938 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,700 Americans named Ronan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ronan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ronan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ronan is “a male given name from Irish.”
Borrowed from Irish Rónán.
/ˈroʊnən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ronan?
#247 among boys’ names, 2025
Ronan rose from #335 in 2015 to #247 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.54 to 0.82 per 1,000.
1,428 babies in 2025, the peak
Ronan peaked in 2025, when 1,428 babies were given it (1,406 boys, #247 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,374 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,406 | #247 | 0.82 |
| 2024 | 1,374 | #257 | 0.80 |
| 2023 | 1,149 | #290 | 0.67 |
| 2022 | 1,299 | #266 | 0.74 |
| 2021 | 1,258 | #274 | 0.72 |
| 2020 | 1,263 | #270 | 0.73 |
| 2019 | 1,346 | #268 | 0.75 |
| 2018 | 1,192 | #294 | 0.66 |
| 2017 | 1,194 | #296 | 0.65 |
| 2016 | 1,111 | #315 | 0.59 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,029 | #335 | 0.54 |
| 2014 | 865 | #366 | 0.45 |
| 2013 | 668 | #434 | 0.35 |
| 2012 | 596 | #457 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 584 | #457 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 507 | #508 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 470 | #565 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 535 | #509 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 466 | #552 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 411 | #599 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 372 | #607 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 322 | #643 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 232 | #762 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 203 | #823 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 187 | #860 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,011 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 123 | #1,092 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 60 | #1,712 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,190 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,658 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,005 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,047 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,484 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,280 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,020 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,470 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,633 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,643 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,064 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,472 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,733 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,892 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,271 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,605 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,786 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ronan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 20,938 Americans recorded as Ronan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 girls and 1,406 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ronan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ronan, and how old are they?
20,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 20,938 Americans ever recorded as Ronan. The median Ronan alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 13,407 people named Ronan (192 women and girls, 13,215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 55 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 164 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,300 |
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 Ronan born?
The states with the most babies named Ronan are California, New York and Texas, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 154 | #243 | 0.9× |
| New York | 91 | #215 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 77 | #437 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 72 | #282 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 64 | #203 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | #228 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 53 | #225 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 53 | #173 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 47 | #152 | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 45 | #223 | 1.0× |
Where Ronan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ronan is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1959 it was given 2.5 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 Ronan 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 86,079 babies since 1880, Ronan is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,428 of their 2,785 babies (51%), the most given that year.
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 Ronan
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 Ronan and names like it
- Compare Ronan and RonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRonan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ronan since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ronan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ronan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ronan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.