Rony
Rony was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,225 among boys’ names; 1,996 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,930 Americans named Rony and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rony by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rony?
#3,225 among boys’ names, 2025
Rony fell from #2,906 in 2015 to #3,225 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 21.7 per million.
66 babies in 2009, the peak
Rony peaked in 2009, when 66 boys were given it, #2,093 among boys’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,225 | 21.7 |
| 2024 | 50 | #2,661 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,103 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 42 | #2,985 | 24.1 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,560 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,798 | 25.5 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,242 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,193 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,560 | 27.0 |
| 2016 | 45 | #2,718 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,906 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,142 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 38 | #2,985 | 20.1 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,858 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,729 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,544 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,093 | 33.3 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,228 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,204 | 29.4 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,239 | 27.7 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,156 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,065 | 29.2 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,566 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,115 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,235 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 45 | #2,212 | 22.9 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,388 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,634 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 52 | #1,829 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,757 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 55 | #1,660 | 28.9 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,430 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,036 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,944 | 21.0 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,884 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 42 | #1,862 | 20.4 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,134 | 16.5 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,979 | 17.2 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,927 | 17.7 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,048 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,799 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,967 | 15.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,381 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,255 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,377 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,217 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,872 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,101 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,347 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,666 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,883 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,547 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,173 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,357 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,815 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,302 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,863 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,897 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,193 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,518 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,960 | 2.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,473 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,408 | 2.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,957 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rony a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rony has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rony: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rony, and how old are they?
1,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,996 Americans ever recorded as Rony. The median Rony alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 5,739 people named Rony (173 women and girls, 5,566 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,718 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 114 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 505 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 785 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 512 |
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 Rony born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,411 | 1.4× |
Where Rony is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rony is most over-represented in Florida: since 1943 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 Rony 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 Rony?
Rony is a less common spelling of Ronnie: SSA has recorded 1,996 Rony and 191,119 Ronnie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 211,448 babies since 1880, Rony is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 441 babies (8.4%), again the third 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 Rony
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 Rony and names like it
- Compare Rony and RonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRony peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rony since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Rony.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rony alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.