boys:
1.5k births since 1918
#3140 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1918
#6231 (19th percentile)
The name Ronal is the #6,231 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,514 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 19.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,140 (31.5% percentile) for all time with 1,514 births since 1918.
Ronal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for boys in 1918). Birth data for Ronal is available in 99 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Ronal reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 10.7% percentile (ranked #466) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 54 births per million (ranked 10.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ronal ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 10.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ronal".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ronal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.7% confident that Ronal is pronounced as ROH-nuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-nuhl, at 35.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R OW1 N AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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