Meaning not yet researched.
Ronnell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,041 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,041 in 1971; #11,731 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ronnell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,731 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #1,041.
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Ronnell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,041 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 64 (1993).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Ronnell, making it the 11,731st most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,041, reached in 1971. The most boys given the name in a single year was 64, in 1993. For comparison, it was #6,999 in 2015 and #2,985 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ronnell in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1940 with 5 babies. In all, 2,544 US babies have been given the name, 7.2% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 576 babies named Ronnell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US boys were named Ronnell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ronell, Ronelle and Ronnel 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ronell (1,949), Ronelle (657), Ronnel (269), Runell (174), Roniel (170), Ronnal (33), Ronnelle (23), Ronniel (23), Roynell (20), Ronaele (15), Ruenell (5), Roneal (5), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ronnell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,731 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,579 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #7,164 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,050 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,222 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,753 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #7,041 |
| 2017 | — | — | 20 | #4,899 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,755 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,999 |
| 2014 | — | — | 14 | #6,248 |
| 2013 | — | — | 15 | #5,866 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,205 |
| 2011 | — | — | 28 | #3,771 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,491 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,533 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,367 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,492 |
| 2006 | — | — | 28 | #3,669 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,919 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,206 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,098 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,075 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,672 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,208 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,090 |
| 1998 | — | — | 39 | #2,303 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,735 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,732 |
| 1995 | — | — | 42 | #2,017 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,920 |
| 1993 | — | — | 64 | #1,469 |
| 1992 | — | — | 54 | #1,634 |
| 1991 | — | — | 52 | #1,628 |
| 1990 | — | — | 62 | #1,433 |
| 1989 | — | — | 61 | #1,407 |
| 1988 | — | — | 63 | #1,303 |
| 1987 | — | — | 50 | #1,461 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,351 | 53 | #1,354 |
| 1985 | — | — | 34 | #1,784 |
| 1984 | — | — | 48 | #1,380 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,862 | 44 | #1,445 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,863 | 47 | #1,390 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,820 | 57 | #1,222 |
| 1980 | — | — | 49 | #1,356 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,749 | 43 | #1,431 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,469 | 51 | #1,270 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,142 | 44 | #1,388 |
| 1976 | — | — | 50 | #1,237 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,425 | 56 | #1,137 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,847 | 54 | #1,121 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,172 | 39 | #1,345 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,290 | 42 | #1,305 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,480 | 62 | #1,041 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,708 | 55 | #1,113 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,855 | 25 | #1,669 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,066 | 23 | #1,685 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,554 | 21 | #1,749 |
| 1966 | — | — | 14 | #2,199 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,302 | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,581 | 26 | #1,572 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,827 | 22 | #1,736 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,793 | 19 | #1,889 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,394 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,250 | 14 | #2,300 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,090 | 21 | #1,797 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,617 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,942 | 15 | #2,178 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,475 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,413 |
| 1954 | — | — | 22 | #1,662 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,683 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,247 | 9 | #2,843 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,307 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,985 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,767 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,760 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,338 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,878 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,831 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,957 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,850 |
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).