Lonnie

Where Lonnie comes from

Diminutive + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lonnie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #220 among boys — 53 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #114
    159 babies named Lonnie — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Lon.
Namesakes

No widely known Lonnie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.