Ronnell
#11,727 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ronnell has been given to 2,544 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #11,727 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 64 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.
Babies named Ronnell, 2025
1 in 553,000
Ronnell over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ronnell over time
In 2025, Ronnell went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ronnell?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,727
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ronnell sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ronnell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ronnells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ronnell was born before 1986 — so the typical Ronnell is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 21.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,308
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (506).
Is Ronnell 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,509
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,733
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.4%
- Peak was 1993 (64)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.6% average annual change
Spellings of Ronnell
Ronnell is not the most common spelling — Donnell is, with 22.2% against Ronnell's 3.7%.
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 Ronnell is used
Across 1910–2025, Ronnell was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 131,659 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Missouri1 in 33,333
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 4Illinois1 in 100,000
- 5New York1 in 100,000
- 6Ohio1 in 100,000
- 7Florida1 in —
- 8Louisiana1 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. Ronnell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ronnell around the world
Where Ronnell 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 & Wales2009–2009#4,527in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ronnell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ronnell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Ronnell
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ronnell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Ronnell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.