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The name Ron is a diminutive form of Ronald. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ron has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ron**
Use of the Name Ron for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
34,131	26,194	2,733	127	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ron has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Ron first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1934, which is the first year shown on the table. Ron last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1995, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ron**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1934	766	65
1935	654	84
1936	600	94
1937	487	137
1938	490	141
1939	406	198
1940	388	215
1941	335	294
1942	294	423
1943	265	522
1944	256	522
1945	244	546
1946	208	826
1947	209	919
1948	233	768
1949	294	524
1950	363	346
1951	402	284
1952	413	279
1953	368	348
1954	360	402
1955	330	501
1956	262	764
1957	208	1,278
1958	175	1,697
1959	166	1,875
1960	170	1,889
1961	170	1,838
1962	178	1,705
1963	185	1,589
1964	209	1,330
1965	213	1,144
1966	229	939
1967	241	839
1968	252	816
1969	230	1,002
1970	270	785
1971	298	664
1972	345	497
1973	380	408
1974	400	376
1975	443	321
1976	417	345
1977	457	310
1978	494	268
1979	495	281
1980	494	295
1981	543	239
1982	557	240
1983	642	178
1984	651	176
1985	667	176
1986	661	184
1987	707	167
1988	780	147
1989	728	184
1990	737	191
1991	832	154
1992	916	134
1993	906	141
1994
1995	986	127
Totals:		34,131		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ron as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Ron appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 61 times during the last 125 years.

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