Ron is a boy's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “Song of Joy.” In 2024 it was given to 31 boys in the United States.
Ron at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Biblical & Christian
Meaning
“Song of Joy”
Pronunciation
/ɹɑn/
About the name Ron
Ron belongs to the Biblical & Christian tradition. Its meaning — “Song of Joy” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Ron first appears in Social Security records in 1919. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #166 in 1959, and in 2024 31 babies received the name — 36,341 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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