girls:
1.7k births since 1881
#4085 (29th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1880
#3520 (23rd percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1880
#5139 (34th percentile)
The name Lonie is the #5,139 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,755 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 33.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,085 (28.5% percentile) for all time with 1,677 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #3,520 (23.2% percentile) for all time with 1,078 births since 1880.
Lonie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1881 for girls). Birth data for Lonie is available in 105 out of the 111 years between 1880 and 1990 (95 years for boys and 91 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 Lonie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (60.9% of all recorded births). In 1990, 0.0% of babies named Lonie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1885, the name was more popular for boys (52.2% boys from 1880 to 1884), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (61.2% girls from 1885 to 1990).
For girls, Lonie reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #324) with 116 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 153 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
For boys, Lonie reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #238) with 123 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 123 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lonie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lonie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lonie is pronounced as LOH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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