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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ronald

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#638

down −63 places

2025 births

438

down −59 births

All-time births

1,082,247

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1947
34,899 births
Best rank
#9
in 1941
First recorded
1883
#868 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1955
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
142 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 194734,899#11Peak
  2. 194833,527#10
  3. 194631,858#10
  4. 194931,502#11
  5. 195029,908#12

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #9 in 1941 · peak births 34,899 in 1947

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

1,082,247 boys · 3,844 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ronald has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.