Ronald is the Scottish form of Ragnvaldr, a name introduced to Britain by Scandinavian settlers and invaders. The Old Norse name Ragnvaldr means ‘powerful ruler’ or ‘godlike ruler’.
Ronald is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Ronald isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Ronald ranks 434. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Ronald. In total, there are currently 1,071,940 people – children, adults and seniors – named Ronald living in the United States, which is approximately 0.32 % of the entire population.
Ronald is the Scottish form of Ragnvaldr, a name introduced to Britain by Scandinavian settlers and invaders. The Old Norse name Ragnvaldr means ‘powerful ruler’ or ‘godlike ruler’.
Did you know... that Ronald McDonald, the clown mascot for the McDonald's chain of restaurants, first appeared in 1963?
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Ronald is one of them. However, Ronald is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Iowa seem to particularly fancy this name – the 21,154 men called Ronald who live here are 0,962% of all male residents and push their name up to #16 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Iowa. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 1,071,940 people with the name Ronald. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Ronald on position 26 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Ronald is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Ronald and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ronald, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
Nut
Apple
Lion
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ronald
Ronald
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
O
N
A
L
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
O
N
A
L
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ronald sounds like this:
