Ronaldo

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ronaldo is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., spanische und portu­ giesische Form von.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 887◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1.6K
  • NINicaragua1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈253K ●

across 11 countries

#659 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
257 ●

301K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 887 ◐

Brazil

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

männl. Vom., spanische und portu­ giesische Form von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ronaldo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#134238,744△114K rec.1 in 887270KRonaldo211
PH Philippines#191103,36288K rec.——Ronaldo93
AR Argentina—22,74015K rec.—13Ronaldo67
PE Peru—20,48211K rec.——Ronaldo54
MX Mexico—11,33110K rec.—19Ronaldo110
US United States—8,50121K rec.1 in 39K8.5KRonaldo257
VE Venezuela—7,3254.9K rec.——Ronaldo39
PY Paraguay#2707,1594.1K rec.——Ronaldo27
CO Colombia#6786,3192.8K rec.——Ronaldo65
NI Nicaragua#1256,2626.2K rec.——Ronaldo28
SV El Salvador#3435,5843.6K rec.——Ronaldo24
EC Ecuador—2,813△202 rec.1 in 6K2.8K—28

Roughly 239K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 887). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese3.9M89%
  • English280K6%
  • Spanish134K3%
  • Indonesian12K1%
  • ptbr4.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese3,899,11689%
English280,0776%
Spanish133,7863%
Indonesian12,0101%
ptbr4,1451%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ronaldo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name296K records spelled Ronaldo23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Ecuador

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ronaldö, Ronaldoe, Rônâldō, Rõnãldó, Rõñáldó

  • Indonesian given name16K records spelled Ronaldo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Ronaldo, Rônaldo

  • Albanian given name3.1K records spelled Ronaldo12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy

    Also written Rõnâldó, Rôñâldõ, Rònàldò, Roñåldö, Ròñåldò

  • Lao given name2.6K records spelled Ronaldo6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Rönäldö, Rónáldó, Ronaldò, Rönaldö

70 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ronaldo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Cilvēka vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

025507510019201940196019802000202098 · 1998

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Ronaldo in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1920–2021
Yearrecords
19202
19211
19221
19234
19242
19251
19261
19271
19283
19294
19303
19315
19325
19335
19345
19356
19367
19376
19388
19394
19402
19415
19425
19431
19445
19455
19467
19478
19486
19496
19504
19515
19529
19536
19549
19557
195611
19577
195813
195914
196015
19615
19627
196312
19647
196510
196613
19677
19685
19698
19706
19716
19726
19737
19746
19757
19767
19774
19782
19794
19803
19818
19825
19836
19844
19852
19865
19874
19889
19896
19909
19913
199211
19936
199414
199518
199617
199769
199898
199953
200040
200128
200236
200322
200434
200532
200617
200712
200819
20095
20106
201110
20123
20138
20145
20153
20165
20175
20189
20196
20203
20215

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 102 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Alexander III, b. 1100Richard A Williams Jr, b. 1942Rolando Villazón, b. 1972Rolando Fonseca, b. 1974Ronaldo, b. 1976Ronaldinho, b. 1980Ronaldo Aparecido Rodrigues, b. 1982Rolando Bianchi, b. 1983Rolando, b. 1985Bruno Martins Indi, b. 1992
  • Alexander IIIb. 1100ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181
  • Richard A Williams Jrb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican tennis coach
  • Rolando Villazónb. 1972MXnot in their usual nameMexican naturalized French tenor
  • Rolando Fonsecab. 1974CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
  • Ronaldob. 1976BRBrazilian association football player (born 1976)
  • Ronaldinhob. 1980BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian associaton fooball player (born 1980)
  • Ronaldo Aparecido Rodriguesb. 1982BRBrazilian footballer (1982–)
  • Rolando Bianchib. 1983ITnot in their usual nameItalian footballer
  • Rolandob. 1985PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1985)
  • Bruno Martins Indib. 1992PTnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1992)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 85 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Ronaldo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—270K#185
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022239K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—238K#129
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.5K#2,745
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.8K#388
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—814#598
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—773#129
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020633—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—504#836
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—416#5,188
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025354#276
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—333#2,825

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 688 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ronaldo?
We estimate roughly 253 thousand people bear Ronaldo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Ronaldo have the most bearers?
We estimate about 239 thousand people bear Ronaldo in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ronaldo.
Where is Ronaldo most common?
Ronaldo is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 887 people carrying it.
How common is Ronaldo compared with other names?
In Brazil, Ronaldo is the 134th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Ronaldo a male or female name?
Ronaldo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ronaldo mean?
Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., spanische und portu­ giesische Form von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ronaldo” — the 134th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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