Name Awesome

Renaldo

#13,457 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Spanish origin

Renaldo has been given to 2,879 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #13,457 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 116 recorded.

Babies named Renaldo, 2025

1 in 663,000

Renaldo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renaldo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Spanish origin

Spanish

What Renaldo means

Renaldo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Renaldo is used in English. Its origins include Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Renaldo is pronounced /ɹɪˈnɑldəʊ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,879 boys were recorded with the name Renaldo between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 116 in 1982; its best national rank was #826 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,942 in 2020 to #13,457 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,990 in 2015 to #13,457 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Renaldo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,457
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renaldo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renaldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renaldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renaldo was born before 1979 — so the typical Renaldo is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,526
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (767).

Is Renaldo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−6,287
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,515
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,467
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.3%
Peak was 1982 (116)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#826
1982

Spellings of Renaldo

Renaldo is not the most common spelling — Ronald is, with 95.7% against Renaldo's 0.25%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Renaldo is used

Across 1910–2025, Renaldo was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 158,994 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Renaldo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Renaldo around the world

Where Renaldo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004
  • France
    1924–2011
    #4,778
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1950–1973
    #454
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Renaldo

People whose public names include Renaldo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Renaldo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Renaldo. Linked forms have their own page here.

RenaldRenardoRinaldoReginaldEnaldo

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Renaldo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,457
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,515
Best rank ever
#826
1982
Peak year
1982
116 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,879
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Renaldo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RenatoOsbaldoGeraldoRenzoArnaldoArnoldoOswaldoRonaldoRenardReneeUbaldoReinaldoRennerRenardoRenoLeopoldoRennickRendellOsvaldoRenwickRennyRenleyRenRennie

Names with a curve like Renaldo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Renaldo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TeranceRichardoLamarrPhilippeLauraRojelioKevanRebeccaWhitneyMichaleMariaCharlton

Sibling names for Renaldo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Renaldo

Top names of 1982, Renaldo's peak yearThe 1980s in fullOther names that peaked in 1982Boys' names starting with R