# Ronia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ronia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Swedish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Ronya, Ronja |
| US babies named this | 224 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 224 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 26, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* Borrowed from Swedish Ronja, from the book of Lindgren. * Transliteration of Russian Роня (Ronja), diminutive of Вероника (Veronika).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 14 | 8,246 |
| 2006 | 11 | 10,465 |
| 2007 | 10 | 11,460 |
| 2008 | 7 | 15,078 |
| 2009 | 7 | 14,912 |
| 2012 | 5 | 18,997 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12,840 |
| 2015 | 11 | 10,023 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,559 |
| 2018 | 5 | 17,651 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,214 |
| 2020 | 7 | 13,201 |
| 2021 | 5 | 17,202 |
| 2022 | 6 | 14,961 |
| 2025 | 6 | 14,581 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |

## In other languages

- Finnish: Ronja
- German: Ronja
- Norwegian: Ronja
- Swedish: Ronja
- Russian: Роня

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.