Ronal
Ronal was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,795 among boys’ names; 1,541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Ronal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 20 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ronal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ronal?
#5,795 among boys’ names, 2025
Ronal rose from #11,811 in 2015 to #5,795 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 9.4 per million.
61 babies in 1939, the peak
Ronal peaked in 1939, when 61 boys were given it, #780 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,795 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,651 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,136 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,645 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #7,006 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,394 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,728 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,519 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,447 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,516 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,811 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,495 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,597 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,017 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,425 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,489 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,559 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,022 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,771 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,475 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,812 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,970 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,988 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,012 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,394 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,881 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,710 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,978 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,577 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,116 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,053 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,050 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,276 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,567 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,420 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,922 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,500 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,262 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,779 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,982 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,642 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,171 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,364 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,244 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,870 | 4.5 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,943 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,560 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,822 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,683 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,110 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,984 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,228 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,106 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,110 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,962 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,288 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,231 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,951 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,742 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,631 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,622 | 12.3 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,099 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,867 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,298 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,636 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,008 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,257 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,472 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,716 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,811 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,267 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,061 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,637 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,530 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,656 | 11.8 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,341 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,417 | 15.3 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,323 | 17.9 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,321 | 19.3 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,358 | 18.3 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,358 | 18.9 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,330 | 20.3 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,126 | 28.5 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,177 | 28.5 |
| 1939 | 61 | #780 | 55.1 |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,024 | 36.1 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,308 | 25.3 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,155 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,226 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,005 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,820 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,439 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,085 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,973 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,883 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,308 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,675 | 9.8 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,112 | 5.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,162 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,771 | 10.0 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,063 | 8.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ronal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ronal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ronal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ronal, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 67% of the 1,541 Americans ever recorded as Ronal. The median Ronal alive today is 40 years old; half are between 20 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 2,477 people named Ronal (30 women and girls, 2,447 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,071 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ronal rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 98 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 232 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 148 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 143 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 273 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 133 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,487 babies since 1880, Ronal is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 38 babies (42%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Ronal and names like it
- Compare Ronal and RonellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sRonal peaked in 1939.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ronal since 1910.
- The top names of 1939The year the most babies were named Ronal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ronal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.