Baby name
CLASSIC
🇩🇪 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 Ronja
/ROHN · yah/
Meaning
“Judgment”
Swedish and Norwegian feminine name invented by author Astrid Lindgren for her 1981 novel Ronja Rövardottir (Ronia the Robber's Daughter); etymologically formed on Ragnhild but functionally a literary coinage.
Nicknames
ron
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Feels literary and fresh; Astrid Lindgren names age beautifully across Scandinavia.
The cultural moment.
Top 20 in Sweden in the 1980s following the novel's publication; popular in Norway and Germany from the 1990s onward; still current.