girls:
280 births since 1889
#5436 (5th percentile)
boys:
505 births since 1883
#4081 (11th percentile)
overall:
785 births since 1883
#6954 (10th percentile)
The name Loney is the #6,954 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 785 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 10.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,081 (11.0% percentile) for all time with 505 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #5,436 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 280 births since 1889.
Loney first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1889 for girls). Birth data for Loney is available in 69 out of the 105 years between 1883 and 1987 (57 years for boys and 35 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Loney has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (64.3% of all recorded births). In 1987, 100.0% of babies named Loney were boys.
For boys, Loney reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #488) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
For girls, Loney reached its peak popularity in 1903, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #335) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 43 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1939.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loney".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Loney is pronounced as LOH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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