Ronnell
Recorded 1940–2025 · United States
Ronnell was most popular in 1971, when 75 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,269 that year. In 2025 it ranked #22,044, with 6 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,544 people named Ronnell.
Ronnell over time
How old is the name Ronnell?
Ronnell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1940, which makes it about 85 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 82 of the 86 years since.
How many people are named Ronnell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,544 American births named Ronnell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,334 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Ronnell in 2025?
6 American babies were named Ronnell in 2025, ranking #22,044 that year.
Is Ronnell getting more or less popular?
Ronnell is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 9 births a year across 2021–2025 against 17 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Ronnell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Ronnell is mostly a boy’s name — 7.2% of the 2,544 Americans given it were girls and 92.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Ronnell?
Roughly 2,334 Americans named Ronnell are alive today — 92% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 40 years old, and half are between 28 and 52.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org