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Loni

#7,010 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lonnie

Loni has been given to 3,878 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #7,010 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 325 recorded.

Babies named Loni, 2025

1 in 207,000

Loni over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Loni: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lonnie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loni means

Loni is a variant of Lonnie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Loni → Lonnie → Alonzo → Alfonso → Alfonso → *𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌿𐌽𐍃. The family’s meaning is “noble + ready”, recorded in Gothic with the source elements aþalaz and funsaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Loni is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lonnie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,770 girls were recorded with the name Loni between 1943 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 325 in 1980; its best national rank was #570 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,282 in 2020 to #7,010 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,569 in 2015 to #7,010 in 2025.

In the United States, 108 boys were recorded with the name Loni between 1956 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1963; its best national rank was #2,787 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Loni?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,010
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Loni sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lonis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loni was born before 1982 — so the typical Loni is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,680
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (1,734).

Is Loni rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+431
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,272
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,559
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.9%
Peak was 1980 (325)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#570
1980

Spellings of Loni

Loni is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 14.7% against Loni's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Loni is used

Across 1910–2025, Loni was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 87,301 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Idaho1 in 50,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 50,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 50,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 100,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Loni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Loni around the world

Where Loni ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1997
    #2,738
    in 1997
  • France
    2001–2001
    #4,421
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1992–1993
    #1,917
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1975–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Loni

People whose public names include Loni, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Loni in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Loni. Linked forms have their own page here.

LonaLeoniLonniLeonie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Loni by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,010
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,272
Best rank ever
#570
1980
Peak year
1980
325 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,770
Count in 2025
16

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,787
1963
Peak year
1963
10 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
108
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Loni

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Loni

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Loni, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Loni

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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