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Japanese names are made with ideograms (kanji) that can change the meaning of the word, so there are lots of homonyms in Japanese. So, for instance, the name Yuki is identical to the word "snow", but the two ideograms that are used for the name have a different meaning: in the case of my friend Yuki I think it's something along the lines of "learning and wisdom".

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You can ask your friends what kanji they've used for their son's name, possibly it doesn't *mean* literally ronin as in "masterless samurai". Anyway, I agree with what others have said that the general associations with the name Ronin are negative.