Entry № 8804 · Irish origin

Ronan Ronan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROH-nuhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Little seal (Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer journalist)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "little seal (ronan farrow, pulitzer journalist)".

Ronan is from the Irish Rónán — "little seal" (the seal in Celtic mythology was associated with selkies, the seal-people who could shed their skins to become human).

Little seal (Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer journalist) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Rónán
Transliteration
Rónán
Pronunciation
/ ˈroʊ.nən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ronan stands.

Ronan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ronans before her.

Real people
Ronan Farrow
American Pulitzer journalist.
born 1987
Saint Ronan of Locronan
5th-century Irish missionary.
5th century
Ronan Keating
Irish singer (Boyzone).
born 1977
In fiction
Ronan
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Ronan.

The number behind Ronan.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ronan reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.