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Ronda vs Ronold

American parents have registered 34,674 Rondas since 1880, against 865 Ronolds. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ronda Ronold

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 98 years in which either name was published, Ronda for 97 years and Ronold for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ronda Ronold
Total US births 34,674865
Most in one year 1,92235
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30,000480
Median age today 6069
Peak year 19651950
Best rank 181st girls1,220th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19151927
Girls / boys 34,315 / 3590 / 865

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 Ronolds alive today are over 69; half the Rondas are over 60. That is 9 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 Ronold.