Randal
Randal was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,343 among boys’ names; 29,324 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,200 Americans named Randal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 51 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Randal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Randal mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Randal is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Randall.”
Variant of Randall.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Randal?
#5,343 among boys’ names, 2025
Randal fell from #2,902 in 2015 to #5,343 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.4 to 10.5 per million.
1,477 babies in 1958, the peak
Randal peaked in 1958, when 1,477 boys were given it, #190 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,343 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,598 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,628 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,268 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,736 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,710 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,764 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,583 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,952 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,285 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,902 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,596 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,858 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,094 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,775 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,802 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,665 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,361 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,685 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,064 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,141 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 72 | #1,655 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,998 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 70 | #1,658 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 95 | #1,286 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,330 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,146 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,363 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 113 | #1,057 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 136 | #946 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 165 | #822 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 152 | #857 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 180 | #760 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 199 | #719 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 237 | #648 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 227 | #632 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 236 | #590 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 233 | #582 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 262 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 231 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 231 | #554 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 253 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 275 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1980 | 233 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 237 | #560 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 246 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 271 | #494 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 260 | #495 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 302 | #465 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 299 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1973 | 357 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1972 | 383 | #401 | 0.24 |
| 1971 | 451 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1970 | 559 | #341 | 0.30 |
| 1969 | 574 | #324 | 0.32 |
| 1968 | 591 | #311 | 0.34 |
| 1967 | 659 | #283 | 0.38 |
| 1966 | 690 | #278 | 0.39 |
| 1965 | 690 | #285 | 0.37 |
| 1964 | 823 | #269 | 0.41 |
| 1963 | 912 | #251 | 0.45 |
| 1962 | 1,019 | #244 | 0.49 |
| 1961 | 1,155 | #233 | 0.54 |
| 1960 | 1,273 | #219 | 0.60 |
| 1959 | 1,436 | #201 | 0.67 |
| 1958 | 1,477 | #190 | 0.70 |
| 1957 | 1,458 | #192 | 0.68 |
| 1956 | 1,321 | #203 | 0.62 |
| 1955 | 1,128 | #214 | 0.55 |
| 1954 | 895 | #236 | 0.44 |
| 1953 | 770 | #243 | 0.39 |
| 1952 | 730 | #254 | 0.38 |
| 1951 | 663 | #261 | 0.35 |
| 1950 | 490 | #305 | 0.27 |
| 1949 | 450 | #324 | 0.25 |
| 1948 | 306 | #390 | 0.17 |
| 1947 | 267 | #419 | 0.15 |
| 1946 | 187 | #467 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 122 | #542 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 103 | #610 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 87 | #691 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 63 | #818 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 71 | #736 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 51 | #886 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 52 | #855 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 51 | #878 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,113 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,095 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,487 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,534 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,171 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,252 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,600 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,110 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,767 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,579 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,130 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,169 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,647 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,755 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,732 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,222 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,068 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Randal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Randal has been given almost only to boys: 132 girls in 115 years of records.
Girls and boys named Randal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Randal, and how old are they?
22,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 29,324 Americans ever recorded as Randal. The median Randal alive today is 63 years old; half are between 51 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 24,441 people named Randal (144 women and girls, 24,297 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,916 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 236 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11,700 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,920 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 916 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 320 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Randal born?
The states with the most babies named Randal are California, Texas and Ohio, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,489 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 2,428 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 1,535 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 1,424 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,192 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 1,160 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 970 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 929 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 844 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 785 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Randal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Randal is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Randal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 243,595 babies since 1880, Randal is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 147 babies (12%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Randal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Randal and names like it
- Compare Randal and RandallBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRandal peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Randal since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Randal.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Randal alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.