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Ronda vs Ronnel

American parents have registered 34,674 Rondas since 1880, against 269 Ronnels. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ronda Ronnel

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 100 years in which either name was published, Ronda for 96 years and Ronnel for 4 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Ronda Ronnel
Total US births 34,674269
Most in one year 1,92212
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30,000230
Median age today 6038
Peak year 19651983
Best rank 181st girls3,411th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19151941
Girls / boys 34,315 / 3590 / 269

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 Rondas alive today are over 60; half the Ronnels are over 38. That is 22 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: Ronda and Ronnel.