Given name · also Swedish
Ronya
Ronya is a feminine given name from Swedish, ultimately from Russian.
Original RussianРоня
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ronya comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Russian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ronya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 261
- 0 boys · 261 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1973. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 318 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.
Ronya’s family of names
In English usage, Ronya has a related form in Ronia. In English usage, Ronya has a related form in Ronia. In English usage, Ronya has a related form in RONJA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ronya
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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