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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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.