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Ronja Ronja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROHN-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Astrid Lindgren Ronja the Robber's Daughter"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Swedish)

A name that means "astrid lindgren ronja the robber's daughter".

Ronja is from the Swedish Ronja — coined by Astrid Lindgren from the Finnish Lake Juronjaure. Ronja is the heroine of Astrid Lindgren's Ronja Rövardotter (Ronja the Robber's Daughter, 1981) — widely considered one of the late works of the most-celebrated Swedish children's author.

Astrid Lindgren coined (Swedish).

The name in its native script.

Ronja
Transliteration
Ronja
Pronunciation
/ ˈroʊn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ronja stands.

Ronja 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.

Ronjas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ronja (Lindgren)
Astrid Lindgren's Robber's Daughter heroine 1981.
1981

Names connected to Ronja.

The number behind Ronja.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ronja reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.