Ronin
Where Ronin comes from
From modern films and comics, perhaps literally "a ronin". Compare also Ronan.
Along the way
- 1998First appearance#5,840 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 2020Peak, #390790 babies named Ronin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
- A male given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
No widely known Ronin turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.
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.