Lonny

Where Lonny comes from

Lonny 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. 1920
    Lonny Chapman born
    American actor
  2. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,286 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1966
    Peak, #527
    209 babies named Lonny — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #834.
  5. 1979
    Lonny Baxter born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lonny Baxter · American basketball player, born 1979
  • Lonny Chapman · American actor, 1920–2007
  • Lonny Ross · American television actor, born 2000
  • Lonny Kellner · German actress and singer, 1930–2003
  • Lonny Price · American actor, born 1959

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.