Ronan
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #247 for boys in 2025, 1,406 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,406 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 20,679since 1959
Ronan over time
Rank among boys' names. Ronan has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #247 | 1,406 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #257 | 1,374 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #290 | 1,149 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 | #266 | 1,299 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #274 | 1,258 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #270 | 1,263 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #268 | 1,346 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #294 | 1,192 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #296 | 1,194 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 | #315 | 1,111 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #335 | 1,029 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #366 | 865 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #434 | 668 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #457 | 596 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #457 | 584 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #508 | 507 |
| 2009 | — | #564 | 470 | |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #507 | 535 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #552 | 466 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #599 | 411 |
| 2005 | — | #606 | 372 | |
| 2004 | — | #643 | 322 | |
| 2003 | — | #762 | 232 | |
| 2002 | — | #824 | 203 | |
| 2001 | — | #858 | 187 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,009 | 145 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,086 | 123 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,700 | 60 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,164 | 40 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,590 | 29 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,854 | 16 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ronan! It came in at #2,663, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Ronan is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maine#128 · 1 in 423
- Massachusetts#169 · 1 in 767
- New Hampshire#185 · 1 in 765
- Rhode Island#198 · 1 in 772
- Washington#223 · 1 in 908
Best ever in a state: #58 in Vermont, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #128 | 11 | 1 in 423 |
| Massachusetts | #169 | 39 | 1 in 767 |
| New Hampshire | #185 | 6 | 1 in 765 |
| Rhode Island | #198 | 5 | 1 in 772 |
| Washington | #223 | 40 | 1 in 908 |
| Oregon | #255 | 18 | 1 in 1,019 |
| Nebraska | #269 | 10 | 1 in 1,037 |
| New York | #277 | 71 | 1 in 1,447 |
| Virginia | #284 | 30 | 1 in 1,410 |
| Minnesota | #296 | 20 | 1 in 1,401 |
| Nevada | #300 | 10 | 1 in 1,350 |
| Pennsylvania | #302 | 36 | 1 in 1,688 |
| Connecticut | #305 | 9 | 1 in 1,626 |
| Colorado | #311 | 20 | 1 in 1,365 |
| Michigan | #317 | 31 | 1 in 1,576 |
| New Jersey | #317 | 24 | 1 in 1,747 |
| Idaho | #318 | 7 | 1 in 1,191 |
| Maryland | #321 | 17 | 1 in 1,660 |
| Ohio | #326 | 35 | 1 in 1,722 |
| Kansas | #339 | 11 | 1 in 1,437 |
| Indiana | #348 | 20 | 1 in 1,808 |
| Iowa | #348 | 10 | 1 in 1,578 |
| California | #369 | 103 | 1 in 2,246 |
| Utah | #392 | 12 | 1 in 1,794 |
| North Carolina | #395 | 23 | 1 in 2,248 |
| Missouri | #399 | 15 | 1 in 2,157 |
| Arkansas | #411 | 7 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Oklahoma | #415 | 11 | 1 in 1,877 |
| Illinois | #453 | 24 | 1 in 2,767 |
| Arizona | #482 | 13 | 1 in 2,891 |
| Kentucky | #494 | 7 | 1 in 3,182 |
| South Carolina | #513 | 7 | 1 in 3,065 |
| Georgia | #531 | 17 | 1 in 3,236 |
| Alabama | #534 | 7 | 1 in 3,301 |
| Texas | #536 | 54 | 1 in 3,455 |
| Wisconsin | #542 | 8 | 1 in 3,425 |
| Florida | #561 | 26 | 1 in 3,693 |
| Tennessee | #584 | 10 | 1 in 3,627 |
| Louisiana | #638 | 7 | 1 in 3,601 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ronan
- 10 spots since 2024 (#257 → #247)
- 23 spots since 2020 (#270 → #247)
- 88 spots since 2015 (#335 → #247)
- Biggest jump: 151 spots in 2001 (#1,009 → #858)
- Biggest drop: 57 spots in 2009 (#507 → #564)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2025 at #247 (1,406 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,215 boys born in 2025 were named Ronan (0.08%)
- 44.0% of all boys named Ronan (9,092) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 10 | #2,663 (1959) | #2,663 |
| 1960s | 47 | #3,044 (1963) | #3,451 |
| 1970s | 32 | #3,658 (1971) | #4,377 |
| 1980s | 84 | #3,482 (1982) | #4,881 |
| 1990s | 322 | #1,086 (1999) | #3,823 |
| 2000s | 3,343 | #507 (2008) | #692 |
| 2010s | 9,092 | #268 (2019) | #373 |
| 2020s | 7,749 | #247 (2025) | #267 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ronan in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 198,484 of them was named Ronan, which outranked 43.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,129Zully10
- #10,129Zulma10
- #10,129Zurii10
- #10,955Ronan9
- #10,955Aabha9
- #10,955Aakriti9
- #10,955Aala9
- #11,931Aailyah8
- #11,931Aaleigha8
- #11,931Aaliyana8
Tied with 975 names at #10,955; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 2,221 of them was named Ronan, which outranked 97.4% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.