girls:
6.9k births since 1880
#1969 (66th percentile)
boys:
94.3k births since 1880
#319 (93rd percentile)
overall:
101.2k births since 1880
#677 (91st percentile)
The name Lonnie is the #677 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 101,245 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #319 (93.1% percentile) for all time with 94,298 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,969 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 6,947 births since 1880.
Lonnie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Lonnie has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 86.1% of babies named Lonnie were boys.
For boys, Lonnie reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 78.0% percentile (ranked #133) with 1,144 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 1,280 births per million (ranked 52.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lonnie ranks #823 for boys (9.7% percentile) with 51 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lonnie reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 21.3% percentile (ranked #482) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 137 births per million (ranked 10.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lonnie ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 6.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lonnie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lonnie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Lonnie is pronounced as LAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-nee, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L AA1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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