Ronon
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ROH-non
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Ronon is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “little seal”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Ronon mean?
Irish: variant of Ronan, from rón 'seal'
“little seal”
Ronon Dex is a warrior from the Pegasus galaxy in the TV series Stargate Atlantis.
Is Ronon a girl's or a boy's name?
Ronon is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ronon in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Ronon, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the boys named Ronon in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,187 boys in the US were given Ronon or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #185, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Ronon in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
Nicknames for Ronon
- Ron 10 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Ronon
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Finn Declan Brayden Finnegan Rogan Raiden Deacon Kayden Aiden Keegan Cannon Callan
Other spellings of Ronon
Names related to Ronon
More Irish names
Oscar Rowan Rory Maeve Ryan Nolan Quinn Orla Cody Erin Connor Casey Kennedy Lennon Cillian Kevin
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ronon: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ronon, updated 20 October 2026.