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Ronel

#10,461 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ronel has been given to 558 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #10,461 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Ronel, 2025

1 in 474,000

Ronel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ronel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ronel means

Ronel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ronel is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 552 boys were recorded with the name Ronel between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1995; its best national rank was #2,619 in 1941.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,395 in 2020 to #10,461 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,585 in 2015 to #10,461 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Ronel between 1964 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1964; its best national rank was #6,621 in 1964.

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.

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How common is Ronel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,461
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ronel 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ronel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ronels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ronel was born before 1997 — so the typical Ronel is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
19.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
518
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 19.6% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Ronel 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
−2,268
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,066
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,876
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.8%
Peak was 1995 (16)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,619
1941

Spellings of Ronel

Ronel is not the most common spelling — Ronald is, with 44.1% against Ronel's 0.02%.

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 Ronel is used

Across 1910–2025, Ronel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Ronel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ronel around the world

Where Ronel 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
    2009–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1963–2022
    #4,877
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2018–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2000–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ronel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,461
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,066
Best rank ever
#2,619
1941
Peak year
1995
16 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
552
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,621
1964
Peak year
1964
6 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ronel

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

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Sibling names for Ronel

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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