Ronny
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutive of Ronald; ultimately from Germanic 'counsel' + 'rule'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ronny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 942(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 990
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.4K
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 Ronny 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #819 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 550 (measured from records)
- 1 in 942 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 named Ronnie, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ronnie in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and Roni in BR Brazil.
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)
Diminutive of Ronald; ultimately from Germanic 'counsel' + 'rule'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ronny 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #146 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 836 | 52K | Ronnie | 144 |
| US United States | #364 | 105,401as Ronnie | 1 in 3.2K | 100K | Ronnie | 550 |
| DE Germany | #261 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Ronny | 200 |
| BR Brazil | — | 21,622as Roni | 1 in 9.8K | 27K | Roni | 128 |
| GB United Kingdom | #459 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 1.1K | Ronnie | 239 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 13,085 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Ronny | 31 |
| SE Sweden | #243 | 10,836 | 1 in 942 | 11K | Ronny | 87 |
| NO Norway | #121 | 5,525 | 1 in 990 | 20K | Ronny | 104 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,961as Roni | 1 in 1.1K | 5.1K | Ronny | 36 |
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; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; 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). 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)
Ronny is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given name Ronald.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Ronny är en engelsk smekform till → Ronald. Till namnets spridning har troligen racer föraren Ronnie Peterson (1944–78) och fotbollsmålvakten Ronnie Hellström (1949– 2022) bidragit. Ronny förekom tidigare också som kvinnonamn. I den rikssvenska almanackan 16 maj och i den finlandssvenska 5 september.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Diminutif de Ronald.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Norwegian, a male given name borrowed from English Ronny, from Ronald
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)
- Ronny Coxb. 1938USAmerican actor and musician
- Ronny Hallinb. 1938USactress
- Ronny Yub. 1950CNHong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter
- Ronny Jordanb. 1962GBEnglish guitarist (1962-2014)
- Ronny Rosenthalb. 1963ILIsraeli footballer
- Ronny Jacksonb. 1967USAmerican physician, politician, and naval officer (born 1967)
- Ronny Johnsenb. 1969NONorwegian association football player
- Ronny Deilab. 1975NONorwegian association football manager and former player
- Ronny Turiafb. 1983FRFrench basketball player (born 1983)
- Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araújob. 1986BRBrazilian association football 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 75 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20K | #227 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 13K | #167 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11K | #380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,294 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 6.5K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 5.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #4,144 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.8K | #6,348 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 766 | #869 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 477 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 472 | #2,294 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Is Ronny a male or female name?
- Ronny 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 does the name Ronny mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive of Ronald; ultimately from Germanic 'counsel' + 'rule'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Ronny?
- In the etymology graph, Ron, Ronnie and Reynaldo are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ronald.
- How do you pronounce Ronny?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɑni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ronny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Ronnie in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ronny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ronny is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 942 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ronny?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 13,085 people named Ronny in 2024, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ronny compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Ronny is the 146th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ronnyThe 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, “Ronny” — the 146th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.