Ronda
Feminine
Ronda is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 34,315 girls against 359 boys since 1880.
Ronda is a Spanish town on a gorge and a Welsh valley without its h — two quite different places arriving at the same five letters, and American families used both.
How old is the name Ronda?
Ronda first appears in US birth records in 1921 — 104 years ago. The typical Ronda alive today was born around 1966, making them about 59 years old. About 30,500 people named Ronda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ronda most popular?
Ronda peaked in 1967, reaching #178 nationally. See the whole 1967 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Rhondda to Ronda
The story of Ronda
Rhonda appeared in twentieth-century English-speaking records with no Welsh community behind it, which is itself the puzzle — the name arrived as a sound rather than as an inheritance. Ronda is the spelling without the Welsh h, simpler on the page and identical in speech, and it rose in American use alongside its sister spelling through the 1950s and 1960s, peaking in the middle of the 1960s.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Read as a spelling of Rhonda, the usual account gives the Welsh river Rhondda, from rhoddni, understood as 'noisy one'. Read as the Spanish place name, Ronda is an Andalusian town whose name is probably from the Latin Arunda, of unrecovered meaning. A third reading treats it as a coinage on the pattern of Linda and Wanda. Nothing settles it.
How the name formed
- Rhondda
- Rhonda
- Ronda
Related forms: Rhondda · Ronda · Rhonda
Pronouncing Ronda
RON-duh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Ronda and Rhonda are homophones; the h is silent.
Nicknames for Ronda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1921
- Most girls named
- 19661,753 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #178reached in 1967
- Change vs 2016
- 0.0%7 in 2022, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ronda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rhondda in Welsh — related form
- Ronda in Spanish — same name
- Rhonda in English — spelling variant
Rondas among us
people named Ronda are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Ronda has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The simpler spelling of a sound that is otherwise easy to get wrong.
- A real Andalusian town carries the same name, which gives it a second and quite different history.
- Two firm syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Rhonda is commoner in American records and will often be assumed.
- The origin is genuinely unsettled between Welsh, Spanish and coinage.
- It is closely dated to the 1960s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rondas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 30,500 people named Ronda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ronda in 2025?
- Ronda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Ronda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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