Ronel
Ronel was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,461 among boys’ names; 558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ronel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ronel?
#10,461 among boys’ names, 2025
Ronel fell from #8,585 in 2015 to #10,461 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 4.1 per million.
16 babies in 1995, the peak
Ronel peaked in 1995, when 16 boys were given it, #4,006 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,461 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,193 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,571 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,646 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,692 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,395 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,582 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,266 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 15 | #6,008 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,650 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,585 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,649 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,861 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,440 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,397 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,491 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,174 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,600 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,065 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,590 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,144 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,410 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,173 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,292 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,775 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,579 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,104 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,626 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,346 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,006 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,843 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,695 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,243 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,043 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,718 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,222 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,263 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,345 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,599 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,991 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,483 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,068 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,424 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,215 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,018 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,368 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,706 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,665 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,334 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,898 | 4.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,321 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,335 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,504 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,406 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,747 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,254 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,167 | 2.6 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,090 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,169 | 2.7 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,619 | 7.3 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,885 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,061 | 4.8 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,840 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ronel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 558 Americans recorded as Ronel, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ronel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ronel, and how old are they?
An estimated 508 Americans named Ronel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 13 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,003 people named Ronel (105 women and girls, 898 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 466 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Ronel?
Ronel is a less common spelling of Ronnell: SSA has recorded 558 Ronel and 2,544 Ronnell since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,031 babies since 1880, Ronel is the fourth most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 44 babies (16%), the third 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ronel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ronel and names like it
- Compare Ronel and RonnellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRonel peaked in 1995.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ronel since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Ronel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ronel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.