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Ronda vs Rondal

American parents have registered 34,674 Rondas since 1880, against 1,864 Rondals. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ronda against Rondal, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ronda Rondal

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

Of the 101 years in which either name was published, Ronda for 83 years and Rondal for 18 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Ronda Rondal
Total US births 34,6741,864
Most in one year 1,92257
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30,0001,000
Median age today 6064
Peak year 19651947
Best rank 181st girls923rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19151917
Girls / boys 34,315 / 3590 / 1,864

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 Rondals alive today are over 64; half the Rondas are over 60. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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