Lonnie is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
Lonnie is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1449 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,448 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 89,900 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lonnie. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Lonnie is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Lonnie for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Lonnie is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Lonnie is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #98 Lonnie easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1901.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lonnie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Lonnie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Lonnie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lonnie, you can simply say:
Lion
Orange
Nut
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lonnie
Lonnie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lonnie sounds like this: