girls:
6 births since 1964
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
535 births since 1922
#4051 (12th percentile)
overall:
541 births since 1922
#7198 (7th percentile)
The name Ronel is the #7,198 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 541 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 7.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,051 (11.6% percentile) for all time with 535 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1964.
Ronel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1964 for girls). Birth data for Ronel is available in 61 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (61 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Ronel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ronel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #745) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ronel ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 54.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ronel reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #783) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ronel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ronel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.7% confident that Ronel is pronounced as roh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROH-nehl, at 30.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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