Ronin

Where Ronin comes from

From modern films and comics, perhaps literally "a ronin". Compare also Ronan.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ronin
Along the way
  1. 1998
    First appearance
    #5,840 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2020
    Peak, #390
    790 babies named Ronin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes

No widely known Ronin 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.