Ronaldo

Where Ronaldo comes from

Ronaldo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,915 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus born
    Brazilian association football player
  3. 1976
    Ronaldo born
    Brazilian association football player
  4. 1998
    Peak, #552
    359 babies named Ronaldo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #889.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ronaldo · Brazilian association football player, born 1976
  • Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus · Brazilian association football player, born 1965
  • Ronaldo Guiaro · Brazilian footballer, born 1974
  • Ronaldo Henrique Silva · Brazilian association football player, born 1991
  • Ronaldo da Costa · Brazilian athletics competitor, born 1970

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.