US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE RONALD

Same rise and fall as Ronald, around the same years.

WHERE RONALD IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Ronald ranked highest in Alaska (#294) and lowest in Georgia (#2,023). 19 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Ronald name popularity

Ronald has been given to 1,086,091 babies in the United States since 1883.

It peaked in 1947, when 34,972 babies got the name, and its best rank was #12 in 1941.

In 2025, 438 babies were named Ronald (#1,289 in the country), 99% below the peak. That is down 38% from 2015.

Almost every Ronald is a boy.

An estimated 745K people named Ronald are alive in the US today, with a median age of 68.

It was a top-100 name in 50 of the 146 years on record.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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