Ronaldo
#1,976 for boys in 2025, 77 births
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 359 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,043since 1914
Ronaldo over time
Rank among boys' names. Ronaldo has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,976 | 77 |
| 2024 | #1,938 | 81 |
| 2023 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2022 | #1,861 | 85 |
| 2021 | #1,884 | 81 |
| 2020 | #1,798 | 83 |
| 2019 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #1,593 | 103 |
| 2017 | #1,439 | 119 |
| 2016 | #1,373 | 129 |
| 2015 | #1,162 | 160 |
| 2014 | #1,166 | 161 |
| 2013 | #1,211 | 148 |
| 2012 | #1,226 | 144 |
| 2011 | #1,159 | 154 |
| 2010 | #969 | 204 |
| 2009 | #1,004 | 196 |
| 2008 | #1,058 | 179 |
| 2007 | #934 | 212 |
| 2006 | #784 | 264 |
| 2005 | #896 | 201 |
| 2004 | #759 | 240 |
| 2003 | #755 | 236 |
| 2002 | #770 | 224 |
| 2001 | #926 | 167 |
| 2000 | #889 | 177 |
| 1999 | #670 | 253 |
| 1998 | #552 | 359 |
| 1997 | #885 | 157 |
| 1996 | #1,465 | 69 |
| 1995 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #3,338 | 19 |
| 1991 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #1,615 | 49 |
| 1988 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | #1,933 | 28 |
| 1983 | #1,864 | 29 |
| 1982 | #2,111 | 25 |
| 1981 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #1,965 | 28 |
| 1979 | #1,867 | 29 |
| 1978 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | #1,828 | 27 |
| 1975 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1974 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | #2,405 | 16 |
| 1972 | #1,535 | 31 |
| 1971 | #1,705 | 27 |
| 1970 | #1,889 | 22 |
| 1969 | #1,767 | 22 |
| 1968 | #1,731 | 21 |
| 1967 | #1,411 | 29 |
| 1966 | #2,132 | 14 |
| 1965 | #1,856 | 18 |
| 1964 | #1,545 | 26 |
| 1963 | #1,628 | 24 |
| 1962 | #1,625 | 24 |
| 1961 | #1,778 | 21 |
| 1960 | #1,581 | 26 |
| 1959 | #1,588 | 25 |
| 1958 | #1,838 | 19 |
| 1957 | #1,673 | 23 |
| 1956 | #2,015 | 16 |
| 1955 | #1,682 | 21 |
| 1954 | #1,706 | 20 |
| 1953 | #1,836 | 18 |
| 1952 | #2,376 | 11 |
| 1951 | #1,972 | 15 |
| 1950 | #2,321 | 11 |
| 1949 | #2,453 | 10 |
| 1948 | #2,788 | 8 |
| 1947 | #2,498 | 10 |
| 1946 | #2,690 | 8 |
| 1945 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #2,940 | 7 |
| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
| 1940 | #2,671 | 8 |
| 1939 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | #2,479 | 9 |
| 1937 | #2,680 | 8 |
| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
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| 1934 | #3,679 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #3,022 | 8 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #3,214 | 8 |
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| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
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| 1914 | #2,915 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ronaldo! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ronaldo is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#376 · 1 in 2,157
- Texas#616 · 1 in 4,851
- Arizona#669 · 1 in 5,426
- California#713 · 1 in 7,262
- North Carolina#755 · 1 in 6,190
Best ever in a state: #178 in Maine, 1930.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nevada | #376 | 7 | 1 in 2,157 |
| Texas | #616 | 39 | 1 in 4,851 |
| Arizona | #669 | 8 | 1 in 5,426 |
| California | #713 | 35 | 1 in 7,262 |
| North Carolina | #755 | 9 | 1 in 6,190 |
| Illinois | #772 | 12 | 1 in 6,230 |
| Indiana | #845 | 5 | 1 in 7,658 |
| Florida | #1,219 | 8 | 1 in 12,563 |
| New York | #1,438 | 7 | 1 in 15,588 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ronaldo
- 38 spots since 2024 (#1,938 → #1,976)
- 178 spots since 2020 (#1,798 → #1,976)
- 814 spots since 2015 (#1,162 → #1,976)
- Biggest jump: 580 spots in 1997 (#1,465 → #885)
- Biggest drop: 219 spots in 2000 (#670 → #889)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1998 at #552 (359 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1997–2007
- Highest: 1 in 5,324 boys born in 1998 were named Ronaldo (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,183 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all boys named Ronaldo (2,096) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #2,915 (1914) | #3,448 |
| 1920s | 30 | #3,214 (1921) | #3,823 |
| 1930s | 48 | #2,479 (1938) | #3,113 |
| 1940s | 77 | #2,453 (1949) | #2,803 |
| 1950s | 179 | #1,588 (1959) | #1,901 |
| 1960s | 225 | #1,411 (1967) | #1,705 |
| 1970s | 236 | #1,535 (1972) | #1,983 |
| 1980s | 269 | #1,615 (1989) | #2,178 |
| 1990s | 976 | #552 (1998) | #2,172 |
| 2000s | 2,096 | #755 (2003) | #878 |
| 2010s | 1,405 | #969 (2010) | #1,312 |
| 2020s | 491 | #1,798 (2020) | #1,889 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ronaldo in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 11,397 of them was named Ronaldo, which outranked 92.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).