first name
LONI
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 3,828 people named Loni, 74.5% reported their origin as White, 7.8% as Black and 6.9% as Hispanic or Latino. 94.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Loni peaked in 1980, when 332 babies got the name.
At least 3,878 babies have been given the name since 1943. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Loni by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,569. The largest share of babies named Loni, 47.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Loni is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Loni has been most common in Utah (5.8×), California (2.9×), and Minnesota (2.3×), and least common in Ohio (0.86×).
1,545 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Loni, most common first.
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