Roni
Masculine · “Hebrew "my joy" or "my song”
Roni is given to both — 822 boys and 4,707 girls since 1880. See Roni as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Roni is Hebrew for my joy, and the my is the point. A whole class of Hebrew names ends in that possessive -i, so the name is spoken from the child's own mouth: Uri, my light; Gili, my joy; Ori, my light; Roni, my song. They are not descriptions of the child but sentences the child says.
How old is the name Roni?
Roni first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Roni alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 800 people named Roni are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Roni most popular?
Roni peaked in 1955, reaching #2302 nationally. Today it ranks #7194, 4,892 places below that high. See the whole 1955 chart.
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Where it comes from
From rinah to Roni
The story of Roni
Modern Hebrew naming, from the revival of the language onward, produced a large group of short possessive names that are grammatically first-person: Ori, Uri, Roni, Gili, Shiri, my song, and Liri. They belong to a deliberate twentieth-century move away from the long biblical names toward short, transparent, native-sounding ones, and they are among the most common names in Israel today. The American figures for the male Roni peak in 1955, which is early for the Hebrew line and probably reflects the clipping of Ronald as much as any Israeli source; both readings are live, and the spelling does not separate them.
Meaning
Hebrew "my joy" or "my song"
From the root r-n-n, to sing or to shout for joy, giving rinah, joyful song, plus the first-person possessive suffix -i. The name is unisex in Israel and used freely for both. In American records it also appears as a short form of Ronald and Veronica, which are unrelated: Ronald is Norse, from Rögnvaldr, and Veronica is Greek. The Hebrew and the clipped English name share only a sound.
How the name formed
- rinah
- Roni
Related forms: רוני · Ronnie · Roni
Pronouncing Roni
ROH-nee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew stresses the second, ro-NEE, which is the regular Hebrew pattern; both are used in America.
Nicknames for Roni
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1951
- Most boys named
- 200744 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2302reached in 1955
- Change vs 2024
- −38.9%11 in 2025, from 18
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Roni in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- רוני in Hebrew — transliteration
- Ronnie in English — spelling variant
- Roni in Finnish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Ronis among us
people named Roni are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 155,280 born in 2025 was named Roni
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Roni
- #7194
- Roni on the 2025 chart
- #839
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Roni went to 11 boys in 2025, but Rony, Ronny and Ronni are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 89, which makes it the 839th most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,355 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 19,192 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 155,280 for Roni itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Refujio test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Roni's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Refujio climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Refujio's path sketches the road Roni is walking now.
Roni sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Roni beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Roni in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Hebrew meaning is settled, short and unusually cheerful.
- It works unchanged in Hebrew, English and Finnish.
- Ron is an immediate, entirely conventional short form.
- It is unisex in Israel and reads as female to many Americans.
- It is widely assumed to be a nickname for Ronald.
- Hebrew and English stress it on different syllables.
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Masculine · #7194 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Ronis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Roni are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Roni?
- Roni is one of 4 recorded spellings. Rony is the more common one — 37 births in 2025 against 11 for Roni.
- How popular is the name Roni in 2025?
- Roni ranks #7194 among US boy names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Roni?
- About 1 in every 155,280 US boys born in 2025 was named Roni — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Roni with classmates?
- Roni will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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