Given name
Ronaldinho
“advice”·“power”
Ronaldinho is a masculine given name. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ronaldinho is a diminutive of Ronaldo. Ronaldo is built from elements meaning “advice” and “power”.
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Where it comes from
Ronaldinho is a diminutive of Ronaldo. Ronaldo comes from English, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ronaldinho through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 35
- 35 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2006.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ronaldinho’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Ronaldinho is a diminutive of Ronaldo.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Ronaldinho
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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