Ronnel
Ronnel was last recorded in 2018, when 7 babies were given it; 269 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ronnel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ronnel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,520, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1983, the peak
Ronnel peaked in 1983, when 12 boys were given it, #3,581 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | #10,520 | 3.9 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,551 | 3.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,680 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,965 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,845 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,402 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,027 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,402 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,494 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,635 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #8,586 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,488 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,563 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,396 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,303 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,964 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,133 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,782 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,617 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,484 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,581 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,500 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,067 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,431 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,667 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,546 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,985 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,355 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,322 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,624 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,870 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,547 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,525 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,749 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,938 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,268 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,828 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,533 | 7.0 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,438 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ronnel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ronnel 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 Ronnel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ronnel, and how old are they?
An estimated 233 Americans named Ronnel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 31 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 520 people named Ronnel (32 women and girls, 488 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 242 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ronnel 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 Ronnel?
Ronnel is a less common spelling of Ronnell: SSA has recorded 269 Ronnel and 2,544 Ronnell since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,031 babies since 1880, Ronnel is the fifth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 44 babies recorded by SSA was a Ronnel (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.
More about Ronnel and names like it
- Compare Ronnel and RonnellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRonnel peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ronnel since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Ronnel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ronnel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.