Ronaldo

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ronaldo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ronaldo: Recorded since 1997, it reached #610 in 2017, and it stood at #4,275 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#610highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2022
1998	#780
1999	#1383
2000	#1330
2001	#1595
2002	#950
2003	#976
2004	#1347
2005	#1456
2006	#2282
2007	#1125
2008	#1156
2009	#2126
2010	#2036
2011	#2390
2012	#1962
2013	#2660
2014	#1935
2015	#2707
2016	#2335
2017	#2512
2018	#3011
2019	#3411
2020	#3334
2022	#3048
2023	#3112
2024	#5119
2025	#4275

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1997 to 2025.

In 2017: #610 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2512 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2022 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2010–2017
Highest recorded position: #610 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2017 (recorded 2010–2017).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #4275 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Ronaldo appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 279 births with the name.

Ronaldo across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ronaldo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2022 (1997)	#780 (1998)	#4275 (2025)	28 of 29	279 (1997–2025)	21 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#720 (2010)	#610 (2017)	#610 (2017)	4 of 8	13 (2010–2017)	4 (2017)

Ronaldo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ronaldo in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	34	3 of 10	11
2000sbusiest	139	10 of 10	14
2010s	82	10 of 10	8
2020s	24	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Ronaldo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #610 in Republic of Ireland in 2017.

Ronaldo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#4275	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2036	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2126	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1156	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1125	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#976	19	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1330	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#780	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Ronaldo is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Ronaldo, between 1997 and 2025, in 28 of those 29 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1997–2025	28	#780 in 1998
Republic of Ireland	2010–2017	4	#610 in 2017

Its high point came 19 years earlier in England and Wales (1998) than in Republic of Ireland (2017).

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #610, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 13 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ronan · #20, 62y
Ronav · #2921, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kyler · #610, 25y
Eliott · #609, 30y
Marcell · #609, 26y
Catalina · #608, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aasiyah · #610, 30y
Ed · #610, 19y
Kyler · #610, 25y
Wilf · #610, 29y

Ronaldo was ranked #610 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aayan#610
Abdallah#610
Abdulrahman#610
Adas#610
Adi#710
Adonis#710
Ailbe#710
Ajus#710

Ronaldo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ronaldo without appearing here.

Ronaldo moved ahead of

Shannon
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #950 and #3225.
Garry
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #4991.
Graeme
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1595 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #950 and #2636.
Kim
In 2006 they stood at #2282 and #1892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1125 and #2435.

Moved ahead of Ronaldo

Isak
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #1461.
Rune
In 2018 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #2104.
Gunnar
In 2017 they stood at #2512 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3011 and #1786.
Kasper
In 2005 they stood at #1456 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2282 and #1168.

Moved the opposite way to Ronaldo

Albie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ronaldo went from #2022 to #4275 while Albie went from #914 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ronaldo went from #2022 to #4275 while Alfie went from #92 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ronaldo went from #2022 to #4275 while Alfred went from #192 to #76.
Archie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ronaldo went from #2022 to #4275 while Archie went from #141 to #11.

Moved the same way as Ronaldo

Aaron
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ronaldo went from #2022 to #4275 and Aaron from #32 to #180.
Alan
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ronaldo went from #2022 to #4275 and Alan from #179 to #539.
Alex
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ronaldo went from #2022 to #4275 and Alex from #43 to #207.
Alexander
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Ronaldo went from #2022 to #4275 and Alexander from #16 to #40.

What is known about Ronaldo

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1997–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #610 in Republic of Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ronaldo

Ronaldo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ronaldo across 2 official records

Ronaldo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ronaldo appears in

Popularity data

Where Ronaldo is officially recorded

What the record shows

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What is known about Ronaldo

Ronaldo at a glance

Ronaldo across 2 official records

Ronaldo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ronaldo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ronaldo

Ronaldo and the names beside it

Ronaldo moved ahead of

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