Renaldo

Where Renaldo comes from

The dictionaries list Renaldo as a given name — a male given name from Spanish — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,101 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Renaldo Nehemiah born
    hurdler, American football player
  3. 1982
    Peak, #823
    116 babies named Renaldo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1984
    Renaldo Balkman born
    Puerto Rican/American basketball player
  5. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,403.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Renaldo Nehemiah · hurdler, American football player, born 1959
  • Renaldo Balkman · Puerto Rican/American basketball player, born 1984
  • Renaldo Benson · American musician, 1936–2005
  • Renaldo Major · American basketball player, born 1982
  • Renaldo Rama · Albanian association football player, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.