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Ronald

Pronounced /ˈɹɒ.nəld/

Rank in 2024
#575
Born in 2024
495
Peak year
1947 · #11
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 495 boys were named Ronald, about 1 in every 3,465.
  • It peaked in 1947 with 34,900 babies, ranked #11.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1883.
  • 1,081,788 boys have been named Ronald since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Ronald per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.1
    Greatest
  2. 14.5
    Silent
  3. 13.4
    Boomers
  4. 6.2
    Gen X
  5. 2.0
    Millennials
  6. 0.7
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 18,324 babies, 1.10 per 1,000. Silent: 299,481 babies, 14.50 per 1,000. Boomers: 504,052 babies, 13.42 per 1,000. Gen X: 168,536 babies, 6.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 61,780 babies, 2.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 22,059 babies, 0.70 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,244 babies, 0.33 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Raghnall, itself derived from Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr, from rǫgn (“advice”) + valdr (“power”), later partly merged with the Continental Germanic equivalent Reynold.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈɹɒ.nəld/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Ronald, CC BY-SA 4.0.