Ronin
Ronin is ranked 493rd among boys in 2024 (623 births). Its best rank was 390th, in 2020.
- Rank in 2024
- #493down 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6230.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020790 births
- Best rank
- #390in 2020
- Since 1998
- 9,874people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,670 boys have been named Ronin in the United States since 1998, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 790 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 556 → 493).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 48%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 204 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Ronin was the 390th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Ronin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Roenpeak 2024
- Kysenpeak 2020
- Kysonpeak 2023
- Jhettpeak 2018
- Rowenpeak 2024
- Ronanpeak 2024
- Riyanpeak 2022
- Kannonpeak 2020
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.