Ronald


Gender:
Origin: Norse
1707 famous people named Ronald found on Wikipedia.
1078553 male, 3849 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 493-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 9-th in year 1943
Used in: English, Scottish

Meanings

A male given name: from Scandinavian words meaning “counsel” and “rule.”.

Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse Rögnvaldr. In some cases Ronald is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Raghnall, a name likewise derived from Rögnvaldr. The latter name is composed of the Old Norse elements regin ("advice", "decision") and valdr ("ruler"). Ronald was originally used in England and Scotland, where Scandinavian influences were once substantial, although now the name is common throughout the English-speaking world. A short form of Ronald is Ron. Pet forms of Ronald include Roni, and Ronnie. A feminine form of Ronald is Ronalda. Rhona, a modern name apparently only dating back to the late nineteenth century, may have originated as a feminine form of Ronald. The names Renaud/Renault and Reynold/Reinhold are cognates from French and German, respectively.

Masc. proper name, from Old Norse Rögnvaldr "Having the Gods' Power," from rögn "gods," literally "decreeing powers" (plural of regin "decree") + valdr "ruler" (from Proto-Germanic *waldan, from PIE root *wal- "to be strong").

Scottish form of Ragnvaldr: ruler with counsel. Combine of regin (advice, counsel) and valdr (power, ruler).

Famous People: 1707 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Ronald Reagan 1911 American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
2 Ronald Koeman 1963 Dutch footballer and manager
3 Ronald Wayne 1934 Co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.)
4 Ronald Speirs 1920 American paratrooper (1920-2007)
5 Ronald DeFeo 1951 American mass murderer
6 Ronald Perelman 1943 Businessman, investor
7 Ronald Fisher 1890 English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist
8 Ronald Isley 1941 American musician
9 Ronald Colman 1891 Actor
10 Ronald Lauder 1944 American diplomat
11 Ronald DeWolf 1934 American critic of Scientology
12 Ronald "Slim" Williams 1967 American businessman
13 Ronald de Boer 1970 Dutch footballer
14 Ronald McNair 1950 Physicist, astronaut
15 Ronald Lacey 1935 Actor
16 Ronald Burkle 1952 Supermarket billionaire
17 Ronald Dworkin 1931 American legal philosopher
18 Ronald D. Moore 1964 Screenwriter and television producer
19 Ronald Coase 1910 British economist and author
20 Ronald Ross 1857 Indian-born British medical doctor and Nobel laureate
21 Ronald Pickup 1940 British actor
22 Ronald dela Rosa 1962
23 Ronald L. Green 18th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
24 Ronald Clark O'Bryan 1944 American murderer
25 Ronald Gene Simmons 1940 American spree killer
26 Ronald Dominique 1964 American serial killer
27 Ronald Howard 1918 British actor
28 Ronald Meyer 1944 United States Marine
29 Ronald Ryan 1925 Australian murderer
30 Ronald Robertson 1937 Figure skater
31 Ronald Jenkees 1988 American musician
32 Ronald A. Rasband 1951 American Mormon leader
33 Ronald Darby 1994 American football player and sprint athlete
34 Ronald Cheng 1972 Hong Kong actor and singer
35 Ronald Torreyes 1992 Venezuelan professional baseball player
36 Ronald Evans 1933 NASA astronaut
37 Ronald Leary 1989 American football player
38 Ronald Curry 1979 American football player and coach
39 Ronald Bell 1951 American musician
40 Ronald Fraser 1930 British actor
41 Ronald Nitschke 1950 German actor
42 Ronald Allen 1930 English actor
43 Ronald Vargas 1986 Venezuelan footballer
44 Ronald Graham 1935 American mathematician (b.1935)
45 Ronald Ferguson 1931 British Life Guards
46 Ronald Pelton 1941 NSA analyst
47 Ronald Kessler 1943 American journalist
48 Ronald Ebens American criminal
49 Ronald Searle 1920 British artist and satirical cartoonist
50 Ronald Harwood 1934 South African dramatist and playwright
51 Ronald Knox 1888 English priest and theologian
52 Ronald Gray 1966 American mass murderer
53 Ronald S. Baron 1943 Stock investor and founder of Baron Capital Group Inc.
54 Ronald Zubar 1985 Footballer
55 Ronald Hutton 1953 British historian and author
56 Ronald Hughes 1935 Lawyer
57 Ronald Mallett 1945 American theoretical physicist
58 Ronald Neame 1911 English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director.
59 Ronald Shusett 1939 American screenwriter
60 Ronald Lewis 1928 British actor
61 Ronald Inglehart 1934 American political scientist
62 Ronald Jerothe 1947 American mobster
63 Ronald Tubid 1981 Filipino basketball player
64 Ronald White 1939 American musician
65 Ronald Guttman 1952 Belgian actor, theatrical producer and film producer
66 Ronald Winans 1956 American singer
67 Ronald Paul Bucca 1954 American Fire Department Marshal
68 Ronald Maddison 1933 Royal Air Force engineer who died while acting as a volunteer human "guinea pig"
69 Ronald Townson 1933 American singer
70 Ronald Sugar 1948 Canadian businessman
71 Tony Ronald 1941 Dutch singer and record producer
72 Ronald Davis 1937 American painter
73 Ronald Murray 1979 American basketball player
74 Ronald Noble 1956 American law enforcement officer
75 Ronald Miehling 1950
76 Ronald A. Williams II 1969 Murdered American police officer
77 Ronald Drever 1931 British physicist
78 Ronald Allen Smith 1957 Canadian murderer
79 Ronald Bass 1942 American writer and producer
80 Ronald Molendijk 1965
81 Ronald J. Daniels 1959 American academic administrator
82 Ronald L. Haeberle 1941 American photographer
83 Ronald Armstrong-Jones 1899 British barrister and soldier
84 Ronald Fairbairn 1889 Scottish psychiatrist & psychoanalyst
85 Ronald Breslow 1931 American chemist
86 Ronald Firbank 1886 British novelist
87 Ronald F. Maxwell 1949 American film director
88 Ronald Powell 1991 American football player, defensive end
89 Ronald Binge 1910 British composer and arranger
90 Ronald Forfar 1939 British actor
91 Ronald Syme 1903 New Zealand-born historian and classicist
92 Ronald A. Heifetz 1951 American psychiatrist
93 Ronald Arculli 1939 Hong Kong solicitor and politician
94 Norma Ronald 1937 British actress
95 Ronald Magill 1920 British actor
96 Ronald Richter 1909 German scientist
97 Ronald M. Shapiro 1943 American lawyer
98 Ronald Tutor American businessman
99 Ronald Bailey 1953 United States writer, television producer and editor
100 Ronald Takaki 1939 American historian
101 Ronald Radosh 1937 American historian
102 Ronald L. Burgess, Jr. 1952 United States Lieutenant General
103 Ronald Lockley 1903 Welsh naturalist and author
104 Ronald Turpin Canadian murderer
105 Ronald Blythe 1922 British writer
106 Ronald Shiner 1903 British comedian
107 Ronald Edmond Balfour 1904 British histrorian
108 Ronald Plasterk 1957 Dutch politician
109 Ronald A. DePinho American academic
110 Ronald Hamowy 1937 Historian
111 Ronald Zehrfeld 1977 German actor
112 Ronald Jan Heijn 1960 Dutch field hockey player
113 Ronald Johnson 1988 Player of American football
114 Ronald Susilo 1979 Badminton player
115 Ronald Wright 1948 Canadian author
116 Ronald Fogleman 1942 Retired US Air Force general
117 Ronald Guintrange 1972 French journalist
118 Ronald Ray Howard 1973 Convicted murderer
119 Ronald Bruner, Jr. American musician
120 Ronald Pascual 1988 Basketball player
121 Ronald Leigh-Hunt 1920 British actor
122 Ronald Hines 1929 British actor
123 Ronald Numbers 1942 American historian of science
124 Ronald K. Hoeflin 1944 American academic
125 Ronald Raldes 1981 Bolivian footballer
126 Ronald Melzack 1929 Canadian psychologist
127 Ronald Adam 1896 British RAF officer, actor and theatre manager
128 Ronald Rios 1988 Brazilian actor
129 Ronald Venetiaan 1936 President of Suriname
130 Ronald Coifman 1941 Israeli mathematician
131 Ronald Shannon Jackson 1940 American drummer
132 Ronald Cohen 1945 British businessman
133 Ronald Waterreus 1970 Dutch footballer
134 Ronald Fristianto
135 Ronald Harvey 1934 Australian sports official
136 Ronald M. Schernikau 1960 German writer
137 Ronald Olson 1941 American lawyer
138 Ronald Scobie 1893 British Army general
139 Ronald Tree 1897 British politician
140 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish 1897 British chemist
141 Ronald M. Gould 1946 American judge
142 Ronald Sinclair 1924 New Zealand actor and film editor
143 Ronald Singson 1968 Politician
144 Ronald Reid-Daly 1928 Rhodesian army officer
145 Ronald Dupree 1981 American basketball player
146 Ronald Weiser 1945 American ambassador
147 Ronald Kukulies 1971 German actor
148 Ronald Steel 1931 American historian
149 Ronald Grigor Suny 1940 American historian
150 Pamela Ronald American geneticist
151 Ronald D. Castille 1944 American military officer, politician, and judge
152 Ronald Squire 1886 British actor
153 Ronald D. Liebowitz 1957 American academic administrator
154 Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar 1860 British politician
155 Ronald M. George 1940 27th Chief Justice of California
156 Ronald Gavril 1986 Romanian professional boxer
157 Ronald Rice 1945 New Jersey State Senator
158 Ronald Storrs 1881 British official
159 Ronald Pognon 1982 French sprint athlete
160 Ronald Rich British actor
161 Ronald Nored 1990 Basketball coach and player
162 Ronald Atkins 1916 British politician
163 Ronald Blair 1993
164 Ronald Belisario 1982 Major League Baseball pitcher
165 Ronald Ridenhour 1946 Whistleblower who exposed the My Lai Massacre.
166 Ronald J. Zlatoper 1942 American admiral
167 Ronald Möbus 2000 German musician and right-wing extremist
168 Ronald Savage
169 Ronald Koeman Jr. 1995
170 Ronald Langacker 1942 Professor emeritus in the field of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.
171 Ronald Rubinel
172 Ronald Dale Harris American fraudster
173 Ronald Wilson 1922 Australian judge
174 Ronald Gow 1897 British writer
175 Ronald True 1891 British murderer
176 Ronald M. Evans 1949 American biologist
177 Ronald Steele 1986 American basketball player
178 Ronald E. Rosser 1929 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
179 Ronald K. Siegel 1943 American psychopharmacologist
180 Ronald Boire 1961 Businessperson
181 Ronald Radd 1929 British actor
182 Ronald McAulay
183 Ronald Snijders 1975 Writer and tv presenter from the Netherlands
184 Ronald H. Ballou 1937
185 Ronald Brittain 1899 British actor
186 Ronald Ngala 1923 Kenyan politician
187 Ronald Wolfe American rapist
188 Ronald Naar 1955 Dutch mountaineer
189 Ronald Niel Stuart 1886 First World War Victoria Cross recipient and senior British Merchant Navy officer
190 Ronald Greenwald 1934 American rabbi
191 Ronald Frame 1953 British writer
192 Ronald N. Bracewell 1921 Australian scientist
193 Ronald Gillespie 1924 Canadian inorganic chemist
194 Ronald Shaw 1920 Royal Air Force officer
195 Ronald Rolheiser 1947 American religious writer
196 Ronald Fagin 1945 American computer scientist
197 Ronald A. Howard 1934 Professor of Decision Analysis
198 Ronald Pellar American hypnotist and fraudster
199 Ronald G. Wanek 1941 American businessman
200 Ronald H. Griffith 1936 Recipient of the Purple Heart medal