girls:
183 births since 1952
#5533 (3rd percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1940
#2605 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1940
#5307 (31st percentile)
The name Ronnell is the #5,307 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,537 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 31.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,605 (43.2% percentile) for all time with 2,354 births since 1940. For girls, it ranks #5,533 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 183 births since 1952.
Ronnell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for boys and 1952 for girls). Birth data for Ronnell is available in 81 out of the 84 years between 1940 and 2023 (81 years for boys and 24 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 Ronnell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ronnell reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #610) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 35 births per million (ranked 7.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ronnell ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 12.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ronnell reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #760) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ronnell".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Ronnell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.0% confident that Ronnell is pronounced as rah-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-NEHL, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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