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Ron vs Rondi

American parents have registered 36,432 Rons since 1880, against 602 Rondis. Ron is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ron against Rondi, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ron Rondi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ron has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1952, when Ron had 277 and Rondi had 33.

Side by side

  Ron Rondi
Total US births 36,432602
Most in one year 1,88839
Babies in 2025 24under 5
Estimated living today 27,000520
Median age today 6262
Peak year 19601953
Best rank 170th boys1,565th girls
Rank in 2025 4,249thunranked
First recorded 19191945
Girls / boys 70 / 36,362595 / 7

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ron and Rondi.