Last updated: October 9, 2026.
Cristiano Ronaldo married Georgina Rodríguez on August 11, 2026, in a small civil ceremony in Cascais, Portugal. It was a year to the day after they announced their engagement, and ten years after they met.
The Cristiano Ronaldo family now spans three generations in public view. It began in a small house in Funchal, on the island of Madeira, with a cook, a gardener and four children.
Quick Facts
| Full name | Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro |
| Born | February 5, 1985, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal |
| Mother | Maria Dolores dos Santos Viveiros Aveiro |
| Father | José Dinis Aveiro (died 2005) |
| Siblings | Hugo, Elma and Kátia |
| Wife | Georgina Rodríguez (married 2026) |
| Children | Cristiano Jr., Eva, Mateo, Alana Martina and Bella Esmeralda |
| Club | Al-Nassr (captain) |
Who Are Cristiano Ronaldo’s Parents?
Cristiano Ronaldo’s parents are Maria Dolores dos Santos Viveiros Aveiro and José Dinis Aveiro. He was born in Funchal on February 5, 1985, the youngest of four, and grew up in the parish of Santo António.
The family had very little money. Dolores worked as a cook and a cleaner. José Dinis was a gardener for the local council.
Dolores Aveiro, his mother
Dolores Aveiro has told her own story in public, including the hardest part of it. She has said that when she became pregnant with Cristiano she wanted an abortion, because of the family’s poverty and her husband’s drinking, and that her doctor refused.
She let him leave home at 12 to join Sporting CP’s academy in Lisbon. In a 2021 interview she said that if football had not worked out, her son would have become a bricklayer.
José Dinis Aveiro, his father
José Dinis Aveiro worked part-time as the kit man at Andorinha, the amateur club where Cristiano first played, from the age of seven. He named his son partly after Ronald Reagan, his favourite actor.
He had served with the Portuguese Army in Angola during the Colonial War. He struggled with alcoholism afterwards and died in September 2005, when Cristiano was 20 and in his third season at Manchester United.
Cristiano has spoken about it several times. He does not drink alcohol.
Does Cristiano Ronaldo Have Siblings?
Yes. Cristiano Ronaldo has an older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Kátia.
All three have worked with him. Hugo has helped run the CR7 museum in Funchal. Elma has managed CR7 fashion shops. Kátia Aveiro is a singer and is the most active of the three on social media.
What Is Cristiano Ronaldo’s Family Background?
Cristiano Ronaldo is Portuguese, from Madeira. One of his great-grandmothers, Isabel da Piedade, was born on the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde, which was then a Portuguese colony.
Who Is Georgina Rodríguez, His Wife?
Georgina Rodríguez was born in Buenos Aires on January 27, 1994, to an Argentine father and a Spanish mother. She grew up in Jaca, in northern Spain.
She studied ballet as a child and stopped when her family could no longer afford the lessons. At 17 she moved to England to work as an au pair and learn English.
She met Ronaldo in 2016 while working as a sales assistant at a Gucci shop in Madrid. Since 2022 she has starred in a Netflix series about her life, I Am Georgina.
The couple announced their engagement in August 2025 and married one year later.
How Many Children Does Cristiano Ronaldo Have?
Cristiano Ronaldo has five children.
- Cristiano Jr., born in 2010.
- Eva and Mateo, twins, born in 2017.
- Alana Martina, his first child with Georgina, born in 2017.
- Bella Esmeralda, born in 2022.
Bella was born a twin. Her brother died during the birth in April 2022, and the couple announced the loss themselves. Georgina is raising all five children as her own.
Cristiano Jr. is a footballer too. He has come through the youth teams at his father’s clubs and has played for Portugal at youth level.
How Did His Family Shape His Career?
Cristiano Ronaldo’s first club was the one where his father washed the kit. He played for Andorinha from 1992 to 1995, then for Nacional, and joined Sporting CP in 1997.
He moved to Lisbon alone at 12. He has described crying on the phone to his mother most nights in that first year. Manchester United signed him in 2003, when he was 18.
He is now captain of Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, where the team won the league title in 2025-26. He has scored 146 goals for Portugal in 233 games, both world records for a men’s international.
How Did Ronaldo Do at the 2026 World Cup?
The 2026 World Cup was his sixth. He scored twice in a 5-0 group win over Uzbekistan. He then scored a penalty in a 2-1 win over Croatia in the round of 32, his first goal in a World Cup knockout match.
Portugal went out in the round of 16, beaten 1-0 by Spain with a goal in stoppage time. Ronaldo was 41.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are Cristiano Ronaldo’s parents? Dolores Aveiro, who worked as a cook and cleaner, and José Dinis Aveiro, a council gardener who died in 2005.
How many siblings does he have? Three: brother Hugo and sisters Elma and Kátia. He is the youngest.
Is Cristiano Ronaldo married? Yes. He married Georgina Rodríguez in Cascais, Portugal, on August 11, 2026.
How many children does he have? Five: Cristiano Jr., Eva, Mateo, Alana Martina and Bella Esmeralda.
Where is Cristiano Ronaldo from? Funchal, on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Why is he called Ronaldo? It is his second given name. His father chose it after the American actor and president Ronald Reagan.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Cristiano Ronaldo, early life and international record
- Wikipedia: Georgina Rodríguez
- Euronews: Ronaldo weds Georgina Rodríguez in Cascais
- Hello!: Ronaldo marries Georgina a year after engagement
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