Rone
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'dead tree'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹoʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rone is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 101K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia≈1 in 19K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 89K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
3,296 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
'dead tree'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rone counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,296 | 1 in 101K | 4.6K | Rone | 47 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Rone | 20 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 569K | — | Rone | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 1 | Rone | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 256K | 77 | Rone | 5 |
| LV Latvia | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Rone | 4 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Rone | 14 |
3,296 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rone is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Celtic; from the heathland.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In sco, A gutter on the edge of the roof to catch water.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, treestump
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, suspenders, N., (k6-dai guests at funeral
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jim Roneb. 1935GBBritish Archdeacon
- Don Rone, Jr.b. 1944USAmerican politician
- John Roneb. 1949USAmerican stage actor and director (1949–2019)
- Trasel Roneb. 1969USAmerican basketball player (born 1969)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,821 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,253 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 77 | #39,021 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rone mean, and where does it come from?
- 'dead tree' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Rone?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹoʊn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rone have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Rone, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rone.
- How common is the name Rone?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,296 people named Rone in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rone”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.