Rónald

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rónald is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 22nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Raghnall, itself derived from Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr, from rǫgn (“advice”) + valdr (“power”), later partly merged with the Continental Germanic equivalent Reynold.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 381(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 482
  • BRBrazil1 in 6.7K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

689,843 people, 2020

Sources
416 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 381 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ronald in US United States, BR Brazil, CR Costa Rica and 1 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)

Derivation of Rónald: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Rónald
  1. Scottish GaelicRaghnall(measured from records)
  2. Old NorseRǫgnvaldr(measured from records)
  3. Old Norse rootrǫgn“advice”(measured from records)

Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Raghnall, itself derived from Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr, from rǫgn (“advice”) + valdr (“power”), later partly merged with the Continental Germanic equivalent Reynold.

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Irish first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rónald 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.

Where Rónald is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#908689,8431 in 482689KRonald416
BR Brazil#56931,3931 in 6.7K31KRonald175
EC Ecuador—23,2011 in 72923KRonald72
CR Costa Rica#2213,3741 in 38113KRonald102
SE Sweden—2,2351 in 4.6K2.2K—22
GY Guyana—1,1731 in 6401.2K——

689,843 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rónald is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name76 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ronald, רונלד, רונאלד, רואלד, Ron-Ald

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ron-Ald, Ronald

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Rónald Bermúdez, b. 1901Rónald Marín, b. 1962Rónald Cháves, b. 1970Rónald Salas, b. 1989Rónald Gómez, b. 1991

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 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

What does the name Rónald mean, and where does it come from?
Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Raghnall, itself derived from Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr, from rǫgn (“advice”) + valdr (“power”), later partly merged with the Continental Germanic equivalent Reynold. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Irish first names and 5 other sources.
Is Rónald a male or female name?
Rónald 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 Rónald have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 690 thousand people named Rónald, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ronald.
Where is Rónald most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rónald is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 381 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rónald?
In the United States, the national register counted 689,843 people named Rónald in 2020, about 1 in 482 residents.
How common is Rónald compared with other names?
In the United States, Rónald is the 908th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Rónald” — the 908th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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