Roñaldo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Roñaldo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Ronald, anglicized from a Scottish Gaelic form of Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr, from rǫgn (“advice”) + valdr (“power”), later partly merged with the Continental Germanic equivalent Reynold.
- BRBrazil1 in 887(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.2K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- 1 in 887 (inferred from the name graph)
238,744 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ronaldo in BR Brazil, PH Philippines, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- EnglishRonald(measured from records)
- English rootrǫgn“advice”(measured from records)
From English Ronald, anglicized from a Scottish Gaelic form of Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr, from rǫgn (“advice”) + valdr (“power”), later partly merged with the Continental Germanic equivalent Reynold.
Cited for this meaning 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Roñaldo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #143 | 238,744 | 1 in 887 | 270K | Ronaldo | 216 |
| PH Philippines | #250 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Ronaldo | 103 |
| US United States | — | 8,530 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | Ronaldo | 286 |
| CO Colombia | #734 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Ronaldo | 67 |
| GT Guatemala | #126 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Ronaldo | 33 |
| NI Nicaragua | #141 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Ronaldo | 30 |
| PY Paraguay | #305 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Ronaldo | 28 |
| GY Guyana | — | 354 | 1 in 2.1K | 354 | — | — |
238,744 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roñaldo mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Ronald, anglicized from a Scottish Gaelic form of Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr, from rǫgn (“advice”) + valdr (“power”), later partly merged with the Continental Germanic equivalent Reynold. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Roñaldo a male or female name?
- Roñaldo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Roñaldo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 239 thousand people named Roñaldo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ronaldo.
- Where is Roñaldo most common?
- Roñaldo is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 887 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Roñaldo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 238,744 people named Roñaldo in 2022, about 1 in 887 residents.
- How common is Roñaldo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Roñaldo is the 143rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ro%C3%B1aldoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roñaldo” — the 143rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.