Loni

Where Loni comes from

Loni hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1908
    Loni Heuser born
    actress
  2. 1943
    First appearance
    #2,695 among girls, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1945
    Loni Anderson born
    American actress
  4. 1980
    Peak, #570
    325 babies named Loni — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #918.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Loni Anderson · American actress, 1945–2025
  • Loni Heuser · actress, 1908–1999
  • Loni Nest · German actress, 1915–1990
  • Loni Love · American comedian, television host, actress, author, and formal electrical engineer, born 1971
  • Loni von Friedl · Austrian actress, born 1943

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.