Given name · also Swedish
Ronja
Ronja is a feminine given name from Swedish, ultimately from Russian. It is used in English, German, Swedish, Finnish, and 2 other languages.
Original RussianРоня
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ronja comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Russian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Ronja is a diminutive of Вероника.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ronja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 0 boys · 63 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −66%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 168 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ronja’s family of names
In English usage, Ronja is a diminutive of Вероника. In English usage, Ronja has a related form in RONYA. In English usage, Ronja has a related form in RONYA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ronja
- Ronja SavolainenFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1997
- Fini SturmGerman rowerborn 1995
- Ronja AronssonSwedish association football playerborn 1997
- Ronja EiblGerman cyclistborn 1999
- Ronja HarkGerman ice hockey playerborn 2003
- Ronja KemmerGerman politician (CDU)born 1989
- RonyaFinnish singerborn 1991
- Ronja SchütteGerman rowerborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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