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Ronaldo

#1,988 in 2025Boys' name

Advice + power

Ronaldo has been given to 6,043 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #1,988 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 359 recorded.

Babies named Ronaldo, 2025

1 in 43,100

Ronaldo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ronaldo: meaning, origin, and history

Advice + power

English

What Ronaldo means

Ronaldo means “advice + power”, associated with rǫgn and valdr.

Origin, language, and formation

Ronaldo is used in Albanian, Cebuano, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ronald and Rǫgnvaldr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Ronaldo is pronounced /roˈnal.do/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,043 boys were recorded with the name Ronaldo between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 359 in 1998; its best national rank was #552 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,812 in 2020 to #1,988 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,164 in 2015 to #1,988 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 Ronaldo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,100
77 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 22,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,988
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,844 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ronaldo 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,844 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ronaldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ronaldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ronaldo was born before 2004 — so the typical Ronaldo is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,877
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (2,096).

Is Ronaldo 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
−37
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−176
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−824
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.4%
Peak was 1998 (359)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#552
1998

Spellings of Ronaldo

Ronaldo is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 55.1% against Ronaldo's 0.24%.

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 Ronaldo is used

Across 2016–2025, Ronaldo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 13,450 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 10,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 14,286
  4. 4Illinois1 in 20,000
  5. 5New York1 in 20,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 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.

Ronaldo around the world

Where Ronaldo 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
    1997–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2017
    #610
    in 2017
  • France
    1973–2024
    #4,500
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1998–2021
    #2,357
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1991–1997
    #543
    in 1997

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

Notable people named Ronaldo

People whose public names include Ronaldo, 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.

Ronaldo in other languages

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

RonaldRinaldoReinaldoReynaldoRomualdoRainaldoRonaldus

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

Ronaldo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,988
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 176
Best rank ever
#552
1998
Peak year
1998
359 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,043
Count in 2025
77

Names similar to Ronaldo

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

RondellRonnellOswaldoArnoldoOsbaldoRenaldoLeopoldoRoninRonellOsvaldoGeraldoArnaldoRonnyReinaldoRonanWaldoRonalUbaldoRonenRondalReynaldoRondallRonyRonak

Names with a curve like Ronaldo

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

ReaganReillyKeltonDestinLucJustusKeyonNikhilKamronShamarSavionSeamus

Sibling names for Ronaldo

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

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