Ronnald
Ronnald was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 723 Americans have been recorded with it between 1935 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ronnald by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ronnald?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,078, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1948, the peak
Ronnald peaked in 1948, when 39 boys were given it, #1,157 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #10,078 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,666 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,687 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,354 | 4.3 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,857 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,535 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,423 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,488 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,197 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,591 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 14 | #2,292 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,884 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,100 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,868 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 19 | #1,898 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,795 | 9.8 |
| 1958 | 29 | #1,473 | 13.7 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,625 | 11.6 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,251 | 18.0 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,778 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 27 | #1,490 | 13.2 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,376 | 15.7 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,293 | 17.5 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,448 | 14.3 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,531 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,426 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,157 | 22.2 |
| 1947 | 24 | #1,548 | 13.1 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,324 | 17.9 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,342 | 18.6 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,471 | 16.1 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,519 | 15.4 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,128 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,980 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,881 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,038 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,458 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,131 | 6.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,681 | 8.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ronnald a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ronnald has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ronnald: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ronnald, and how old are they?
An estimated 438 Americans named Ronnald and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Ronnald (1 woman or girl, 238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 513 born in the U.S. The Census count is 53% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Ronnald?
Ronnald is a less common spelling of Ronald: SSA has recorded 723 Ronnald and 1,086,091 Ronald since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,087,679 babies since 1880, Ronnald is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 438 babies recorded by SSA was a Ronnald (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ronnald
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 Ronnald and names like it
- Compare Ronnald and RonaldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sRonnald peaked in 1948.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ronnald since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Ronnald.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ronnald alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.