Ronold
Ronold was last recorded in 1975, when 7 babies were given it; 865 Americans have been recorded with it between 1927 and 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ronold by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ronold?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,688, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1950, the peak
Ronold peaked in 1950, when 35 boys were given it, #1,229 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | #4,688 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,849 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,965 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,111 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,597 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,768 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,964 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,060 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,642 | 13.2 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,876 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 13 | #2,348 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,521 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,829 | 9.8 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,173 | 7.3 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,131 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 19 | #1,899 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,181 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,365 | 15.5 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,660 | 11.1 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,933 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,531 | 12.6 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,812 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,169 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,608 | 11.8 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,325 | 17.0 |
| 1950 | 35 | #1,229 | 19.6 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,427 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,292 | 18.2 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,289 | 18.0 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,350 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,485 | 15.6 |
| 1944 | 18 | #1,672 | 13.2 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,359 | 18.9 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,582 | 15.2 |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,167 | 26.9 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,559 | 17.3 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,703 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,515 | 18.9 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,901 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,424 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,012 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,917 | 14.5 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,344 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,909 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,615 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,931 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,733 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,071 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,691 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ronold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ronold has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ronold: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ronold, and how old are they?
An estimated 461 Americans named Ronold and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 62 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 266 people named Ronold (1 woman or girl, 265 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 52% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,087,679 babies since 1880, Ronold is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 438 babies recorded by SSA was a Ronold (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 Ronold
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 Ronold and names like it
- Compare Ronold and RonaldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRonold peaked in 1950.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ronold since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Ronold.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ronold alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.