Ronaldo
Ronaldo is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 81 births. Its best rank was 552nd, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 810.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1998359 births
- Best rank
- #552in 1998
- Since 1914
- 5,966people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,966 boys have been named Ronaldo in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 359 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 35%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ronaldo | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 30 | |
| 1930s | 48 | |
| 1940s | 77 | |
| 1950s | 179 | |
| 1960s | 225 | |
| 1970s | 236 | |
| 1980s | 269 | |
| 1990s | 976 | |
| 2000s | 2,096 | |
| 2010s | 1,405 | |
| 2020s | 414 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Ronaldo was the 552nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Ronaldo
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lucpeak 2002
- Quinlanpeak 2006
- Justicepeak 2002
- Tyrenpeak 2006
- Colepeak 2002
- Aldairpeak 1998
- Kushpeak 2005
- Sahilpeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.