Ron
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ron är en engelsk smekform till → Ronald
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ron is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 933(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 1.4K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ron itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #823 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 591 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 933 (inferred from the name graph)
74,027 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ron är en engelsk smekform till → Ronald. En känd fiktiv namnbärare är Ron Weasley i böckerna och filmerna om Harry Potter. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 5 september.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ron counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #333 | 74,027 | 1 in 4.5K | 74K | Ron | 591 |
| CA Canada | #154 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 933 | 18 | Ron | 267 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Ron | 145 |
| GB United Kingdom | #518 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 268 | Ron | 254 |
| BR Brazil | — | 13,287as Ronan | 1 in 16K | 13K | — | 5 |
| AU Australia | #400 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 9 | Ron | 229 |
| IL Israel | #849 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Ron | 153 |
| NZ New Zealand | #254 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 21 | Ron | 119 |
| GY Guyana | — | 491 | 1 in 1.5K | 491 | — | 10 |
74,027 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ron is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, lang., Nigeria
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ron people (Nigeria): 'joy' or 'song'; derived from Hebrew
as a nameAfrican Names
Short form of Ronald. Pet form: Ronnie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Norwegian Nynorsk, alternative spelling of run (“rune, witchcraft”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ron Randellb. 1918AUAustralian actor (1918–2005)
- Ron Paulb. 1935USAmerican politician (born 1935)
- Ron Rifkinb. 1939USAmerican actor (born 1938)
- Ronald Bassb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer and producer
- Ron Canadab. 1949USAmerican actor
- Ron Perlmanb. 1950USAmerican actor (born 1950)
- Ron Jeremyb. 1953USAmerican pornographic actor (born 1953)
- Ron Clementsb. 1953USAmerican animation director (born 1953)
- Ron DeSantisb. 1978USAmerican politician (born 1978)
- Ron Vlaarb. 1985NLDutch association football player (born 1985)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 91 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 74K | #697 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 491 | #189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 245 | #697 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 88 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 86 | #45,127 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 23 | #58,631 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2022 | 2 | #1,325 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ron a male or female name?
- Ron is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ron?
- In the etymology graph, Ronnie, Ronny and Reggie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ronald.
- In which country does Ron have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Ron, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ron.
- How do you pronounce Ron?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ron mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ron är en engelsk smekform till → Ronald.
- How common is the name Ron?
- In the United States, the national register counted 74,027 people named Ron in 2020, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Ron compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ron is the 333rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ron?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ronThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ron” — the 333rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.