Ronin
Ronin was given to 600 boys in 2025, #504 among boys’ names; 10,494 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,400 Americans named Ronin 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 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ronin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ronin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ronin is “a male given name originating as a coinage.” Its etymology gives the sense “a ronin” (literally).
From modern films and comics, perhaps literally “a ronin”. Compare also Ronan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ronin?
#504 among boys’ names, 2025
Ronin fell from #486 in 2015 to #504 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.32 to 0.35 per 1,000.
813 babies in 2020, the peak
Ronin peaked in 2020, when 813 babies were given it (790 boys, #390 among boys’ names). The 617 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 600 | #504 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 624 | #495 | 0.36 |
| 2023 | 641 | #474 | 0.37 |
| 2022 | 758 | #422 | 0.43 |
| 2021 | 710 | #438 | 0.41 |
| 2020 | 790 | #390 | 0.46 |
| 2019 | 650 | #461 | 0.36 |
| 2018 | 656 | #455 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 563 | #515 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 590 | #508 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 606 | #486 | 0.32 |
| 2014 | 497 | #556 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 291 | #773 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 298 | #768 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 274 | #803 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 249 | #853 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 273 | #815 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 274 | #802 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 200 | #984 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 183 | #1,006 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,320 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,362 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,694 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,907 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 55 | #1,971 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 61 | #1,793 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 65 | #1,648 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,194 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ronin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,494 Americans recorded as Ronin, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls and 600 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ronin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ronin, and how old are they?
10,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,494 Americans ever recorded as Ronin. The median Ronin alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 6,086 people named Ronin (174 women and girls, 5,912 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,100 |
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 Ronin born?
The states with the most babies named Ronin are Texas, California and Ohio, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 72 | #467 | 0.7× |
| California | 60 | #517 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 26 | #423 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 24 | #678 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 22 | #405 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 22 | #313 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 22 | #382 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #509 | 0.7× |
| New York | 19 | #761 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 19 | #409 | 1.4× |
Where Ronin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ronin is most over-represented in Nevada: since 1998 it was given 1.8 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 Ronin 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, Ronin is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 617 of their 2,785 babies (22%), the second 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 Ronin
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 Ronin and names like it
- Compare Ronin and RonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRonin peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ronin since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Ronin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Ronin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ronin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.