Ronja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name of Swedish origin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁɔnja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ronja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 929
- SESweden1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 929 (inferred from the name graph)
8,042 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name of Swedish origin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ronja 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.
8,042 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: the de-munich-standesamt register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Ronja 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 Finnish, a female given name of modern usage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Ronja (m.fl. former) är i Sverige ett nybildat namn. Det är bildat av författaren Astrid Lindgren i boken om Ronja rövardotter (1981) utifrån det samiska sjönamnet Juronjaure. Namnet kan dock även vara en rysk smekform till → Veronica och liknande namn. Ronja har varit populärt i flera årtionden. I den rikssvenska almanackan 14 september och i den finlandssvenska 4 februari.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Swedish, a female given name used in Sweden since 1981
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to erode
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, RONJÁ, ronjez, vb. I. Tranz. (Franțuzism) A coroda (3).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Ronja Perschbacherb. 1972DEGerman politician
- Rina Ronja Karib. 1985DKDanish politician
- Ronja Mannov Olesenb. 1987DKDanish actress
- Ronja Kemmerb. 1989DEGerman politician (CDU)
- Ronja Petersb. 1989DEGerman actress
- Ronja Furrerb. 1992CHSwiss model
- Ronja von Rönneb. 1992DEGerman writer and journalist
- Ronja Maltzahnb. 1993DEGerman singer, songwriter and musician (1993–)
- Ronja Forcherb. 1996ATAustrian actress and singer
- Ronja Savolainenb. 1997FIFinnish ice hockey player
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 54 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Ronja have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Ronja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ronja.
- Where is Ronja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ronja is densest in Finland — about 1 in 929 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Ronja mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name of Swedish origin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ronja a male or female name?
- Ronja is a female 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.
- How do you pronounce Ronja?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁɔnja/ (IPA) for German.
- How common is the name Ronja?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 8,042 people named Ronja, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ronja compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ronja is the 897th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ronja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ronjaThe 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, “Ronja” — the 897th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.