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Lonny

#13,149 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Alonzo

Lonny has been given to 6,413 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #13,149 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1957, with 213 recorded.

Babies named Lonny, 2025

1 in 663,000

Lonny over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lonny: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Alonzo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lonny means

Lonny is a short form of Alonzo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lonny is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɑn.i/ and /ˈlɒn.i/ for Lonny.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alonzo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,357 boys were recorded with the name Lonny between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 213 in 1957; its best national rank was #527 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,296 in 2020 to #13,149 in 2025.

In the United States, 56 girls were recorded with the name Lonny between 1950 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1956; its best national rank was #4,335 in 1956.

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 Lonny?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,149
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lonny sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lonny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lonnys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lonny was born before 1961 — so the typical Lonny is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,104
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1960s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (1,767).

Is Lonny 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
+308
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+147
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
2.3%
Peak was 1957 (213)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#527
1966

Spellings of Lonny

Lonny is not the most common spelling — Johnny is, with 24.8% against Lonny's 0.50%.

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 Lonny is used

Across 1910–2025, Lonny was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 37,885 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 11,111
  2. 2Idaho1 in 11,111
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 11,111
  4. 4Washington1 in 14,286
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 16,667
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 16,667
  7. 7Oregon1 in 20,000
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lonny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lonny around the world

Where Lonny 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
    2020–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1986–2025
    #1,585
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1960–1994
    #531
    in 1994

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 Lonny

People whose public names include Lonny, 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.

Lonny in other languages

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

Lonni

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

Lonny by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,149
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 147
Best rank ever
#527
1966
Peak year
1957
213 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,357
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,335
1956
Peak year
1956
9 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lonny

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

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Names with a curve like Lonny

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

NickyRussDelRandellStanLesKarenSusanRandelDaryleMichelCary

Sibling names for Lonny

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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