Ronny
A Germanic name meaning "ruler's counselor". It stays rare in Poland: only about 140 people carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Ronny Pronunciation
Ronny is pronounced RON-nih (/ˈrɔnnɨ/).
What Ronny means
Where Ronny comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ronny grows from the old Germanic name Rögnvaldr, a word Scandinavian speakers carried across the North Sea. Two roots sit inside it. Regin meant counsel, the advice of the gods, and valdr meant ruler. Together they give the sense that follows Ronny still: ruler's counselor.
The fuller form Ronald took hold in Scotland and England, and Ronny became its plain, daily version. German has its own fondness for the name. In the former East Germany, Ronny ranked among the common boys' names of the 1960s and 1970s, given as a full first name in its own right.
In Poland the name reads as foreign, and it has no fixed spot in the imieniny calendar. A teacher calling the class register might pause at it once, then move on. What the name keeps, wherever it lands, is that old Norse pairing: regin, counsel, and valdr, ruler.
How many people are named Ronny
1 in 184019 men in Poland is named Ronny. 140 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2774 among male names.
Ronny as a middle name
Ronny is a first name for 140 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2686th, between Roderyk (13) and Rowan (13).
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#2684 Refael13
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#2685 Roderyk13
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#2686 Ronny13
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#2687 Rowan13
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#2688 Russel13