Meaning not yet researched.
Ronaldo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 77 in 2025. Its best rank was #552 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #552 in 1998; #1,988 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ronaldo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,988 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #552.
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Ronaldo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 77 boys in 2025. Peak: #552 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 359 (1998).
In 2025, 77 US boys were named Ronaldo, making it the 1,988th most common boys’ name of the year, down 37 places from #1,951 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 81 boys named Ronaldo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #552, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 359. For comparison, it was #1,164 in 2015 and #2,417 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ronaldo in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 6,043 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,096 babies named Ronaldo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 925 US boys were named Ronaldo; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ronaldo ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,289 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ronald (1,086,091 babies since 1880), Reynaldo (20,575 babies since 1880) and Reinaldo (3,941 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Romualdo are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Romualdo (390).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Ronaldo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,289 | #769 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,430 | #973 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,463 | #661 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,795 | #1,260 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 77 | #1,988 |
| 2024 | — | — | 81 | #1,951 |
| 2023 | — | — | 84 | #1,890 |
| 2022 | — | — | 85 | #1,871 |
| 2021 | — | — | 81 | #1,899 |
| 2020 | — | — | 83 | #1,812 |
| 2019 | — | — | 83 | #1,838 |
| 2018 | — | — | 103 | #1,600 |
| 2017 | — | — | 119 | #1,447 |
| 2016 | — | — | 129 | #1,378 |
| 2015 | — | — | 160 | #1,164 |
| 2014 | — | — | 161 | #1,169 |
| 2013 | — | — | 148 | #1,215 |
| 2012 | — | — | 144 | #1,234 |
| 2011 | — | — | 154 | #1,166 |
| 2010 | — | — | 204 | #970 |
| 2009 | — | — | 196 | #1,005 |
| 2008 | — | — | 179 | #1,060 |
| 2007 | — | — | 212 | #937 |
| 2006 | — | — | 264 | #787 |
| 2005 | — | — | 201 | #898 |
| 2004 | — | — | 240 | #759 |
| 2003 | — | — | 236 | #756 |
| 2002 | — | — | 224 | #772 |
| 2001 | — | — | 167 | #934 |
| 2000 | — | — | 177 | #889 |
| 1999 | — | — | 253 | #670 |
| 1998 | — | — | 359 | #552 |
| 1997 | — | — | 157 | #885 |
| 1996 | — | — | 69 | #1,475 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,247 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,744 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,624 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,438 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,203 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,435 |
| 1989 | — | — | 49 | #1,638 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,582 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,319 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,103 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,215 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,967 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,897 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,156 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,398 |
| 1980 | — | — | 28 | #1,994 |
| 1979 | — | — | 29 | #1,897 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,360 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,255 |
| 1976 | — | — | 27 | #1,864 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,188 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,040 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,486 |
| 1972 | — | — | 31 | #1,557 |
| 1971 | — | — | 27 | #1,739 |
| 1970 | — | — | 22 | #1,928 |
| 1969 | — | — | 22 | #1,798 |
| 1968 | — | — | 21 | #1,774 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,440 |
| 1966 | — | — | 14 | #2,197 |
| 1965 | — | — | 18 | #1,903 |
| 1964 | — | — | 26 | #1,570 |
| 1963 | — | — | 24 | #1,652 |
| 1962 | — | — | 24 | #1,664 |
| 1961 | — | — | 21 | #1,813 |
| 1960 | — | — | 26 | #1,613 |
| 1959 | — | — | 25 | #1,617 |
| 1958 | — | — | 19 | #1,884 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,712 |
| 1956 | — | — | 16 | #2,075 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,718 |
| 1954 | — | — | 20 | #1,750 |
| 1953 | — | — | 18 | #1,884 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,483 |
| 1951 | — | — | 15 | #2,037 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,417 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,583 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,970 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,644 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,877 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,266 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,827 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,492 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,166 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,828 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,787 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,617 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,863 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,971 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,122 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,197 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,244 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,499 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,629 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,765 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,840 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,454 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,466 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,202 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).