Rondel
Rondel was last recorded in 2012, when 7 babies were given it; 454 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rondel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rondel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,531, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1958, the peak
Rondel peaked in 1958, when 13 boys were given it, #2,345 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #10,531 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,608 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,370 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,722 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,492 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,634 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,448 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,242 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,395 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,290 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 9 | #5,501 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,073 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,894 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,597 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,368 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,482 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,365 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,155 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,095 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,399 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,524 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,476 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,094 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,061 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,882 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,847 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,896 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,300 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,301 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,618 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,448 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,417 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,857 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,632 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,593 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,551 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,547 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,345 | 6.1 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,368 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,942 | 4.4 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,325 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 8 | #3,031 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,622 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,267 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,168 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,936 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,695 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,823 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,492 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,364 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,437 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,163 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,587 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,299 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,865 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,423 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,205 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,237 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,569 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,316 | 6.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,444 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rondel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rondel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rondel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rondel, and how old are they?
An estimated 311 Americans named Rondel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 38 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 426 people named Rondel (31 women and girls, 395 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 344 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rondel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Rondel?
Rondel is a less common spelling of Rondell: SSA has recorded 454 Rondel and 2,865 Rondell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,934 babies since 1880, Rondel is the fourth most given (7.7% of them).
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 Rondel and names like it
- Compare Rondel and RondellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRondel peaked in 1958.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rondel since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Rondel.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rondel alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.