Randale — boys' name
412 babies named Randale in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1986. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Randale was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Randale in 1986 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Randale
The Social Security Administration has registered 412 babies named Randale between 1949 and 2009, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Randale currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Randale performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Randale shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Randale in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Randale in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 412 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Randale at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Randale popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1949
- Peak year (1986)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 61 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
412 total births across 61 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1986 with 22 births in a single year.
Randale by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 86 births that decade — 21% of Randale's all-time total
Randale decade highlights
- Peak decade 86 births
- Runner-up 83 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Randale's strongest decade
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Randale by state
Where Randale concentrates geographically — total births since 1949
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 10 | 2.4% |
10 of 412 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1949–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.