Ronnell
Ronnell was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,727 among boys’ names; 2,544 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Ronnell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 28 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ronnell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ronnell?
#11,727 among boys’ names, 2025
Ronnell fell from #6,994 in 2015 to #11,727 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 3.5 per million.
75 babies in 1971, the peak
Ronnell peaked in 1971, when 75 babies were given it (62 boys, #1,041 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,727 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,574 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,159 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,045 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,218 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,748 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,037 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,895 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,754 | 15.3 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,994 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #6,244 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,862 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,199 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,769 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,490 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,531 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,364 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,490 | 14.9 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,667 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,915 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,202 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,094 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,071 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,667 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,202 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,087 | 24.0 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,300 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,731 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,727 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,012 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,915 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 64 | #1,464 | 32.6 |
| 1992 | 54 | #1,629 | 27.0 |
| 1991 | 52 | #1,622 | 25.7 |
| 1990 | 62 | #1,428 | 30.2 |
| 1989 | 61 | #1,402 | 30.5 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,299 | 32.9 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,459 | 26.8 |
| 1986 | 53 | #1,353 | 28.8 |
| 1985 | 34 | #1,783 | 18.4 |
| 1984 | 48 | #1,379 | 26.6 |
| 1983 | 44 | #1,444 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 47 | #1,389 | 25.9 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,222 | 31.8 |
| 1980 | 49 | #1,356 | 27.5 |
| 1979 | 43 | #1,431 | 25.0 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,270 | 31.1 |
| 1977 | 44 | #1,388 | 26.8 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,237 | 31.9 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,137 | 35.9 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,121 | 34.3 |
| 1973 | 39 | #1,345 | 25.0 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,305 | 25.9 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,041 | 35.1 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,113 | 29.6 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,668 | 14.0 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,684 | 13.2 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,748 | 12.0 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,198 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,250 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,571 | 13.0 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,735 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,888 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,393 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,299 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,796 | 9.8 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,616 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,177 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,474 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,412 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,661 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,682 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,841 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,306 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,984 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,766 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,759 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,337 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,877 | 4.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,829 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,956 | 3.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,849 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ronnell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,544 Americans recorded as Ronnell, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Ronnell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ronnell, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,544 Americans ever recorded as Ronnell. The median Ronnell alive today is 40 years old; half are between 28 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,748 people named Ronnell (210 women and girls, 1,538 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,333 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 217 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 677 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 786 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 466 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 167 |
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).
Where are babies named Ronnell born?
The states with the most babies named Ronnell are California, Missouri and Ohio, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 150 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 123 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 106 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 100 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 69 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| District of Columbia | 10 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Ronnell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ronnell is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1940 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ronnell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,490 babies since 1880, Ronnell is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 28 babies (21%), the fourth 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 Ronnell
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 Ronnell and names like it
- Compare Ronnell and RonellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRonnell peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ronnell since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Ronnell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ronnell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.