Ronin
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #504 for boys in 2025, 600 births
Given to boys 97.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 790 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,272since 1998
Ronin over time
Rank among boys' names. Ronin has never cracked the top 300 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #504 | 600 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #495 | 624 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #474 | 641 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #422 | 758 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #438 | 710 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 | #390 | 790 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #461 | 650 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #455 | 656 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #514 | 563 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #508 | 590 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #486 | 606 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #555 | 497 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #770 | 291 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #766 | 298 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #802 | 274 |
| 2010 | — | #851 | 249 | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #812 | 273 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #799 | 274 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #981 | 200 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,003 | 183 |
| 2005 | — | #1,315 | 115 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,359 | 107 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,687 | 73 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,888 | 59 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,960 | 55 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,782 | 61 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,642 | 65 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ronin! It came in at #5,840, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Ronin is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alaska#109 · 1 in 320
- Hawaii#198 · 1 in 571
- Montana#200 · 1 in 580
- Colorado#214 · 1 in 807
- Idaho#233 · 1 in 802
Best ever in a state: #109 in Alaska, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #109 | 8 | 1 in 320 |
| Hawaii | #198 | 6 | 1 in 571 |
| Montana | #200 | 6 | 1 in 580 |
| Colorado | #214 | 32 | 1 in 807 |
| Idaho | #233 | 10 | 1 in 802 |
| Oregon | #251 | 17 | 1 in 935 |
| Washington | #262 | 31 | 1 in 1,077 |
| Nevada | #280 | 12 | 1 in 988 |
| Utah | #298 | 16 | 1 in 1,200 |
| Kentucky | #324 | 14 | 1 in 1,418 |
| Arkansas | #331 | 10 | 1 in 1,300 |
| Missouri | #331 | 20 | 1 in 1,427 |
| Indiana | #335 | 22 | 1 in 1,489 |
| West Virginia | #342 | 5 | 1 in 1,404 |
| Oklahoma | #346 | 13 | 1 in 1,381 |
| Arizona | #352 | 21 | 1 in 1,553 |
| Virginia | #353 | 23 | 1 in 1,700 |
| Nebraska | #377 | 6 | 1 in 1,482 |
| Iowa | #387 | 9 | 1 in 1,562 |
| Ohio | #391 | 28 | 1 in 1,936 |
| Wisconsin | #396 | 13 | 1 in 1,871 |
| Michigan | #406 | 21 | 1 in 2,046 |
| Minnesota | #434 | 12 | 1 in 2,095 |
| Tennessee | #434 | 17 | 1 in 2,108 |
| Illinois | #449 | 23 | 1 in 2,344 |
| California | #461 | 72 | 1 in 2,630 |
| Pennsylvania | #462 | 21 | 1 in 2,641 |
| South Carolina | #496 | 8 | 1 in 2,532 |
| New Jersey | #509 | 14 | 1 in 2,897 |
| Massachusetts | #538 | 8 | 1 in 3,565 |
| North Carolina | #539 | 17 | 1 in 3,002 |
| Texas | #557 | 53 | 1 in 3,229 |
| New York | #568 | 27 | 1 in 3,301 |
| Maryland | #572 | 8 | 1 in 3,119 |
| Kansas | #574 | 5 | 1 in 2,761 |
| Louisiana | #581 | 8 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Florida | #588 | 26 | 1 in 3,568 |
| Georgia | #612 | 15 | 1 in 3,358 |
| Alabama | #667 | 6 | 1 in 3,669 |
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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 Ronin
- 9 spots since 2024 (#495 → #504)
- 114 spots since 2020 (#390 → #504)
- 18 spots since 2015 (#486 → #504)
- Biggest jump: 215 spots in 2014 (#770 → #555)
- Biggest drop: 52 spots in 2023 (#422 → #474)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2020 at #390 (790 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,185 boys born in 2020 were named Ronin (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,847 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 45.5% of all boys named Ronin (4,674) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 75 | #1,642 (1999) | #3,741 |
| 2000s | 1,400 | #799 (2008) | #1,359 |
| 2010s | 4,674 | #455 (2018) | #617 |
| 2020s | 4,123 | #390 (2020) | #454 |
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.
Ronin in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 74,585 of them was named Ronin, which outranked 68.5% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,398Yulianna23
- #5,398Zalia23
- #5,398Zharia23
- #5,573Ronin22
- #5,573Aamiyah22
- #5,573Aasiyah22
- #5,573Ace22
- #5,748Aaliah21
- #5,748Aaralyn21
- #5,748Adrina21
Tied with 174 names at #5,573; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,464 of them was named Ronin, which outranked 96.9% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.