Ronaldo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ronaldo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., spanische und portu giesische Form von.
- 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)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- 1 in 887 (inferred from the name graph)
238,744 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
männl. Vom., spanische und portu giesische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ronaldo 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ronaldo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Cilvēka vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alexander IIIb. 1100ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181
- Richard A Williams Jrb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican tennis coach
- Rolando Villazónb. 1972MXnot in their usual nameMexican naturalized French tenor
- Rolando Fonsecab. 1974CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Ronaldob. 1976BRBrazilian association football player (born 1976)
- Ronaldinhob. 1980BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian associaton fooball player (born 1980)
- Ronaldo Aparecido Rodriguesb. 1982BRBrazilian footballer (1982–)
- Rolando Bianchib. 1983ITnot in their usual nameItalian footballer
- Rolandob. 1985PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1985)
- Bruno Martins Indib. 1992PTnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1992)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 88 sources across 57 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ronaldo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 239 thousand people named Ronaldo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ronaldo.
- Where is Ronaldo most common?
- Ronaldo is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 887 people carrying it.
- What does the name Ronaldo mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., spanische und portu giesische Form von
- Is Ronaldo a male or female name?
- Ronaldo 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ronaldo?
- In the etymology graph, Ronald, Ronnie and Reginald are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Ronaldo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 238,744 people named Ronaldo in 2022, about 1 in 887 residents.
- How common is Ronaldo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ronaldo is the 143rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
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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, “Ronaldo” — the 143rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.