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Ronold

RON-uhld /ˈrɑnəld/

At a glance

U.S. rank 2025
Not in the 2025 data · last seen 1975 (#4,309)
Babies in 1975
7 (<0.01% of boys)
Peak
#1,152 in 1941
First recorded
1927

Meaning of Ronold

Ronold arrives like a warm sunset over an Iberian courtyard, a name forged from the Old Norse Ragnvaldr—“mighty counselor”—and carried southward through Gaelic storytellers into modern English. Pronounced simply RON-uhld, it evokes both the steady drift of a gentle río and the bright laughter of a late-summer fiesta. Though it never stormed the top charts, Ronold has appeared in quiet swells of popularity from the Roaring ’20s through the swinging ’70s, each birth a soft promise of steadfast guidance and understated flair. Picture a little Ronold, cheeks rosy as marigolds under the Mediterranean sun, ready to offer wise counsel with a mischievous grin—just don’t be surprised if he jests that he’s not “Ronaldinho’s cousin,” but something uniquely his own.

How to pronounce Ronold

English

Popularity of Ronold in the U.S.

Ronold was last recorded in the U.S. in 1975, ranked #4,309 with 7 babies. It peaked at #1,152 in 1941. It first appears in the records in 1927.

Bar and line chart: Ronold in the U.S., 1927–1975. Bars: boys given the name each year, most 35 in 1950 and 7 in 1975. Line: rank among boy names, peak #1,152 in 1941, #4,309 in 1975.
  • Boys named Ronold (left scale)
  • Rank among U.S. boy names (right scale, #1 at the top)
By year, 1927–1975. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Year-by-year table, 1927⁠–⁠1975 49 rows
Ronold: babies and rank among boy names in the U.S. by year
YearBabiesRankvs previous year
197574,309▲ 919
197455,228▼ 723
197364,505▼ 1,514
1972112,991▲ 379
197193,370▲ 151
197083,521▼ 1,607
1969191,914▲ 993
196892,907▼ 1,298
1967231,609▲ 205
1966181,814▲ 456
1965132,270▲ 139
1964122,409▼ 617
1963201,792▲ 325
1962152,117▼ 47
1961162,070▼ 212
1960191,858▲ 253
1959152,111▼ 766
1958331,345▲ 289
1957241,634▲ 252
1956181,886▼ 383
1955261,503▲ 259
1954191,762▲ 337
1953142,099▼ 517
1952231,582▼ 287
1951321,295▼ 75
1950351,220▲ 189
1949271,409▼ 129
1948321,280▼ 9
1947331,271▲ 56
1946281,327▲ 118
1945211,445▲ 185
1944181,630▼ 287
1943271,343▲ 194
1942211,537▼ 385
1941331,152▲ 367
1940201,519▲ 117
1939171,636▼ 160
1938211,476▲ 352
1937151,828▲ 473
1936102,301▼ 372
1935141,929▼ 69
1934151,860▲ 354
1933112,214▼ 366
1932161,848▲ 623
1931102,471▲ 1,121
193063,592▼ 1,003
1929102,589▲ 1,108
192863,697▲ 513
192754,210new

Notable people named Ronold

  • Ronold Wyeth Percival King was an American physicist and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on microwave antennas.