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Ronnald vs Ronnie

American parents have registered 191,119 Ronnies since 1880, against 723 Ronnalds. Ronnie is still ahead, with 317 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ronnald against Ronnie, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ronnald Ronnie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ronnie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1902 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Ronnald had 6 and Ronnie had 521.

Side by side

  Ronnald Ronnie
Total US births 723191,119
Most in one year 396,382
Babies in 2025 under 5317
Estimated living today 450133,000
Median age today 6963
Peak year 19481947
Best rank 1,145th boys61st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,064th
First recorded 19351902
Girls / boys 0 / 7238,193 / 182,926

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ronnalds alive today are over 69; half the Ronnies are over 63. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ronnald and Ronnie.