girls:
56 births since 1950
#5660 (1st percentile)
boys:
6.3k births since 1920
#1479 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.4k births since 1920
#3387 (56th percentile)
The name Lonny is the #3,387 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,403 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 56.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,479 (67.7% percentile) for all time with 6,347 births since 1920. For girls, it ranks #5,660 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 1950.
Lonny first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for boys and 1950 for girls). Birth data for Lonny is available in 96 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023 (96 years for boys and 9 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 Lonny has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lonny reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 30.0% percentile (ranked #461) with 97 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 115 births per million (ranked 28.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lonny ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lonny reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #743) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lonny".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lonny. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Lonny is pronounced as LAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAW-nee, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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