Randall
Randall was given to 117 boys in 2025, #1,506 among boys’ names; 199,745 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 149,000 Americans named Randall and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 47 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Randall by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Randall mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Randall is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.”
A Middle English variant of Randolph, preserved as a surname and revived in the twentieth century.
/ˈɹændəl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Randall?
#1,506 among boys’ names, 2025
Randall fell from #1,041 in 2015 to #1,506 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.10 to 0.07 per 1,000.
7,200 babies in 1960, the peak
Randall peaked in 1960, when 7,200 babies were given it (7,174 boys, #59 among boys’ names). The 117 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,506 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,619 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 152 | #1,268 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 153 | #1,267 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 164 | #1,196 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 190 | #1,056 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,089 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 208 | #996 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 219 | #953 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 194 | #1,031 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 193 | #1,041 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 239 | #901 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 260 | #828 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 246 | #859 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 250 | #854 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 251 | #844 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 308 | #747 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 337 | #701 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 334 | #698 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 382 | #622 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 375 | #602 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 399 | #571 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 443 | #527 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 444 | #513 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 509 | #467 | 0.26 |
| 2000 | 543 | #440 | 0.28 |
| 1999 | 619 | #397 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 651 | #384 | 0.34 |
| 1997 | 763 | #339 | 0.40 |
| 1996 | 825 | #321 | 0.44 |
| 1995 | 898 | #296 | 0.47 |
| 1994 | 1,063 | #267 | 0.55 |
| 1993 | 1,186 | #243 | 0.60 |
| 1992 | 1,232 | #234 | 0.62 |
| 1991 | 1,482 | #211 | 0.73 |
| 1990 | 1,603 | #192 | 0.78 |
| 1989 | 1,848 | #162 | 0.92 |
| 1988 | 1,796 | #154 | 0.94 |
| 1987 | 1,833 | #150 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 1,889 | #148 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 1,908 | #146 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 1,847 | #148 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 2,060 | #129 | 1.1 |
| 1982 | 2,111 | #130 | 1.2 |
| 1981 | 2,010 | #137 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 2,024 | #136 | 1.1 |
| 1979 | 2,013 | #135 | 1.2 |
| 1978 | 1,971 | #135 | 1.2 |
| 1977 | 1,920 | #140 | 1.2 |
| 1976 | 1,982 | #133 | 1.3 |
| 1975 | 2,125 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 1974 | 2,117 | #123 | 1.3 |
| 1973 | 2,172 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 1972 | 2,354 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 1971 | 3,100 | #102 | 1.8 |
| 1970 | 3,271 | #100 | 1.8 |
| 1969 | 3,562 | #85 | 2.0 |
| 1968 | 3,751 | #79 | 2.2 |
| 1967 | 4,062 | #72 | 2.3 |
| 1966 | 4,448 | #70 | 2.5 |
| 1965 | 4,752 | #73 | 2.6 |
| 1964 | 5,511 | #66 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 5,972 | #65 | 2.9 |
| 1962 | 6,236 | #64 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 6,587 | #63 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 7,174 | #59 | 3.4 |
| 1959 | 7,059 | #59 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 6,326 | #62 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6,675 | #59 | 3.1 |
| 1956 | 6,913 | #54 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 6,688 | #53 | 3.2 |
| 1954 | 6,549 | #55 | 3.2 |
| 1953 | 5,973 | #64 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 5,892 | #63 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 5,532 | #66 | 2.9 |
| 1950 | 4,843 | #70 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 4,161 | #79 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 3,179 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 1947 | 2,785 | #106 | 1.5 |
| 1946 | 2,064 | #123 | 1.3 |
| 1945 | 1,392 | #149 | 1.0 |
| 1944 | 1,242 | #156 | 0.91 |
| 1943 | 1,027 | #171 | 0.72 |
| 1942 | 760 | #205 | 0.55 |
| 1941 | 633 | #213 | 0.52 |
| 1940 | 531 | #233 | 0.46 |
| 1939 | 505 | #231 | 0.46 |
| 1938 | 411 | #272 | 0.37 |
| 1937 | 354 | #288 | 0.33 |
| 1936 | 277 | #325 | 0.27 |
| 1935 | 288 | #323 | 0.28 |
| 1934 | 277 | #325 | 0.27 |
| 1933 | 233 | #354 | 0.23 |
| 1932 | 219 | #379 | 0.21 |
| 1931 | 209 | #389 | 0.20 |
| 1930 | 241 | #369 | 0.22 |
| 1929 | 205 | #410 | 0.19 |
| 1928 | 196 | #425 | 0.18 |
| 1927 | 219 | #408 | 0.19 |
| 1926 | 230 | #390 | 0.21 |
| 1925 | 204 | #421 | 0.18 |
| 1924 | 193 | #441 | 0.17 |
| 1923 | 193 | #437 | 0.18 |
| 1922 | 166 | #479 | 0.15 |
| 1921 | 175 | #465 | 0.16 |
| 1920 | 171 | #467 | 0.16 |
| 1919 | 167 | #456 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 185 | #434 | 0.18 |
| 1917 | 157 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1916 | 156 | #446 | 0.18 |
| 1915 | 156 | #435 | 0.18 |
| 1914 | 111 | #456 | 0.17 |
| 1913 | 97 | #432 | 0.19 |
| 1912 | 57 | #529 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 33 | #523 | 0.15 |
| 1910 | 21 | #650 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 14 | #797 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 32 | #428 | 0.21 |
| 1907 | 22 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1906 | 10 | #839 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,204 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 18 | #533 | 0.14 |
| 1903 | 14 | #612 | 0.12 |
| 1902 | 16 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 8 | #837 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 17 | #620 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,171 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 12 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 13 | #613 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 10 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 8 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 11 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 11 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 7 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 6 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 13 | #543 | 0.12 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 9 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 7 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 11 | #599 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 11 | #586 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 14 | #511 | 0.12 |
| 1881 | 9 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 8 | #731 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Randall a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Randall has been given almost only to boys: 1,153 girls in 145 years of records.
Girls and boys named Randall: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Randall, and how old are they?
149,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 199,745 Americans ever recorded as Randall. The median Randall alive today is 62 years old; half are between 47 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 155,628 people named Randall (589 women and girls, 155,039 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160,765 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2,590 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 72,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 24,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,360 |
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 Randall born?
The states with the most babies named Randall are California, Texas and Ohio, with 20% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15,153 | #1,559 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 12,730 | #1,400 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 11,632 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 11,177 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 9,261 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 8,056 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 7,852 | #1,389 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 7,107 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 7,095 | #1,065 | 1.4× |
| Wisconsin | 6,489 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Randall is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Randall is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Randall 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, Randall is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 117 of their 147 babies (80%), again the 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 Randall
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 Randall and names like it
- Compare Randall and RandalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRandall peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Randall since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Randall: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Randall.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Randall alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.